Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first function of a newsmagazine is to get the news, and in an age of speed, space and science, big news is often made in the most far-flung extremes of the globe. Such news was made last week when the Air Force rescued a 20-man scientific team from a block of ice in the Arctic. Getting the news this time required extraordinary speed. From his post in Anchorage, Correspondent Bill Smith flew to Fairbanks, waited in 10° weather for the arrival of part of the I.G.Y. team. From Boston, Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens drove to Westover Air Force...
...Greco purred by phone from her hotel room: "You can't come up. Wait there and I might come down." Then she went to bed, leaving Zanuck to shiver alone on the terrace in the autumn night. ¶ Sailors' eyes clicked like gyro-repeaters in a flank-speed turn as Cinemermaid Esther Williams, sheathed in tight red slacks and sweater, pranced aboard the Navy submarine U.S.S. Trout in New London, Conn. Purpose: to play hostess on NBC-TV's Omnibus documentary on submarine training. It was Producer Robert Saudek's idea, based on the theory that...
...Frank Finney is the league's leading passer (outshining even Cornell's Tom Skypeck last week) and a good runner as well. Don Warburton--captain, center, and linebacker--is Brown's mainstay on defense, and 205-1b. Paul Choquette, a fullback who combines a juggernaut charge with surprising speed, rounds out this deadly up-the-middle combination...
...practicing his cadence so he could get his punts off faster. "Bruce McIntyre is one of the best punters I've had on any squad I've ever coached. He has a great deal of potential in other areas, too. He's good on defense, he has good speed, and he's a strong runner...
...Repsher appeared to have won the starting halfback position in the Cornell and Lehigh contest but was sidelined with an ankle injury, giving Tom Lawson his chance to capture the right halfback spot. "It was more serious than it appeared at first, because Larry relies so much on his speed," Yovicsin said...