Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club spent this week working on scissors movements in the three quarters. These consist of the wing cutting back behind his center to take the pass, rather than going to the outside and heading for the sidelines, and will hopefully enable the team to make the most of its speed...
With remarkable speed that was attributed, in part at least, to Chris Herter, the U.S., Britain, France and West Germany had reached fast agreement on a compromise package (see FOREIGN NEWS) to put up to U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva next week. Essentially, the plan was based on the U.S. intention to work toward free elections in Germany and to stay in Berlin. But it offered some new variations on those themes: 1) postponement of elections pending efforts of an East-West German commission to get together, 2) some sort of gradual inspected disarmament in Germany...
...International Brotherhood of Bookbinders. Long and powerfully entrenched, the printing-craft unions have brought the make-work science of featherbedding to a level that is the envy of organized labor. Modern presses can roll at 60,000 papers an hour, but at shift-change time, crews frequently cut speed to a few thousand-to run over into overtime. Such stunts can double a pressman's pay, bring it to $15,000 a year...
...outstanding features of today's game was the play of sophomore fielder Tadgh Sweeney. On the second midfield until last Saturday, Sweeney's speed and blocking have earned him a permanent berth on the first unit...
...embarrassed flurry in high Washington circles. Van Allen learned that, at the suggestion of Physicist Nicholas Christofilos of Livermore Laboratory, the Department of Defense was planning to launch Project Argus, in which three atom bombs would be rocketed above the atmosphere and exploded (TIME, March 30). The high-speed electrons released were expected to be shunted around the earth by the earth's magnetic field. Van Allen's discovery that nature had already provided such electrons was a considerable shock...