Word: sprints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Spartan & Sprint. As presently envisioned, the system will not handle what defense theorists call a "sophisticated attack." Such an attack would involve 400 to 600 incoming Soviet missiles traveling at 18,000 m.p.h., carrying devices aimed at confusing U.S. radar and bristling with multiple warheads. Rather, the network will be designed to cope with a "primitive attack," involving the sort of strike that Peking may be capable of mounting by the 1970s. Total cost of this "thin" or "austere" defense, as the Pentagon calls it, is estimated at $3.5 billion...
Over the months, the program has included such nutball events as a race in which the participants sledgehammer an upright piano into pieces that can fit into a nine-inch hole, a balloon-bursting contest with a caveman's cudgel, and a sprint in which a man mounts a Pogo stick, a girl gets on his shoulders and they hop along a greased gangplank over a pool of water...
...supersonic dash just above the ground before hitting its target; the Navy model would be light enough to fly off carriers and provide air defense for the fleet. Because both services wanted a jet with sliding wings that would allow it to take off in short spaces, land slowly, sprint at Mach 2.5 or loiter for hours, McNamara's experts calculated that $1 billion could be saved if the services used the same basic craft...
Harvard's oarsmen have won the Eastern Sprint Championships, the Stein Cup (from Brown and Rutgers), the Adams Cup (from Pennsylvania and Navy) and the Compton Cup (from Princeton and M.I.T.). In New London, Conn., last month, they swept to their fifth straight victory over Yale, by the huge margin of seven boat lengths. And on New York's Hunter Island Lagoon two weeks ago, they outstroked Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club, the 1964 Olympic champions, to 1) earn the right to represent the U.S. at next month's Pan American Games at Winnipeg, Canada...
...victory over Vesper was anything but boring. It was anything but easy, too. Rowing at a beat of 50 strokes a minute, the lighter (by 7 Ibs. per man) Vesper crew sprinted into the lead at the start, stayed there until midway through the 2,000-meter race. Finally, Harvard's weight and strength began to tell. Stroking at a steady 36, the powerful Crimson boat edged alongside, fought off still another Vesper sprint, and drew out to win by 1 ½ lengths. And so back to the stadium they went, but this time they got a break-they...