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Worth the Gamble? Nike-X would use two types of missiles. One is the Nike-Zeus, a long-range, supersonic bird that, in tests, has already proved its ability to intercept and down an ICBM traveling 18,000 m.p.h. far above the atmosphere. The other is Sprint, a shorter-range missile with a tremendous but highly classified starting power. Sprint has months, or even years, of testing to go before it can even begin to be considered operational. But the idea is that the Nike-Zeus would go off first, seek out and try to destroy all incoming, outer-atmosphere...
...Crimson has gone to the mark four times so far this year. Until the Eastern Sprint Championships last month, no one has come closer than 5 lengths. In the Stein Cup race on Boston's Charles River, Harvard shaved 10.2 sec. from the 1¾-mile course record, outpulling Rutgers and Brown by 5 lengths. A week later, on Princeton's choppy Lake Carnegie, the Cantabs knocked an incredible 20.8 sec. from the Compton Cup 1¾-mile record, swamping M.I.T. by 7 lengths and Princeton 9½ lengths. In the 1¾-mile Adams Cup regatta...
Among those who is definitely not conceding is Yale coach Jim Rathschmidt. He has seen his crew lose to M.I.T. in the regular season, and to B.U. and Dartmouth--neither of which had ever beaten a Yale crew--in the Sprints. The Elis, in fact, failed to qualify for the Sprint finals for the first time in years...
...Rathschmidt is quick to point out a couple of mitigating circumstances. An attack of flu had sidelined three of his first-stringers the day of the sprints--an impossible handicap for any boat to overcome. And Harvard, Rathschmidt, adds, was shut out of the sprint finals two years ago, but came back to beat Yale in the race...
...difference of course, is that the Harvard-Yale race is four miles long--almost three times the distance of the sprint course. But Harvard has shown itself a good distance boat by shattering two records for one-and-three-quarter-mile courses--one of them by ten seconds...