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...disastrous tactic; a howitzer at the south end of the field was in a position to fire right down the runway-"like shooting down a bowling alley," as one of the gunners put it. As the Viet Cong, 30 and 40 at a time, tried to sprint across the strip, the big howitzer shells exploded in their midst. The gunners fired off 575 rounds during the battle, blistering the paint on the lone gun's barrel. Helicopter gunships laced the Viet Cong from above with their mini-guns, and Air Force jets made one screaming run after another, dropping...
...Goldberg recovered swiftly. Last week against Penn, he whipped down the right sideline on a 80-yard touchdown sprint, outrunning the entire Quaker defense for Harvard's final score of the day--the one that pushed the Crimson over the 40-point mark for the third time this year...
...that Simpson is the only horse in the Trojan camp. He may be the fastest-last June, O.J. ran the third leg on Southern Cal's sprint relay team that set a world record of 38.6 sec. for 440 yds. But Flanker Jim Lawrence runs the 100 in 9.6 sec. End Earl McCullouch is a co-holder of the world rec ord (13.2 sec.) for the 110-meter-high hurdles. And Fullback Mike Hull, at 230 Ibs. the heavyweight of the U.S.C. backfield, has been clocked at 5.6 sec. for 50 yds. in full football gear...
Each site will also have batteries of short-range Sprint missiles, designed to intercept, at ranges of up to 25 miles, any ICBMs that escape the clouds of X rays and neutrons laid down by the Spartans. In addition, five or six independent Sprint batteries will be deployed to protect the long-range radar sites and Minutemen in the U.S. Northwest. Though the number has not yet been determined, each Spartan site may have as many as 50 missiles...
...launch pads in China or Russia, 30 minutes' flight time from the U.S. Once the onrushing rockets are detected, two types of antimissiles will be deployed. One is the long-range Spartan, designed to intercept enemy missiles 400 miles above the earth; the other is the short-range Sprint, whose job is to cope with any missiles that escape Spartan's nuclear net at levels under...