Word: subs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yardlings will play an eight game schedule starting with M.I.T.'s sub-varsity team on October 15. Following the Engineers. Harvard will continue on the road playing Dartmouth and Exeter, before returning home to meet Andover, Princeton and Brown. The season closes with the traditional Yale game at New Haven...
...before seen by man, and in the case of Scott and Irwin, catching up on some badly needed sleep. On the last day in orbit, activities perked up. The astronauts were awakened by the theme from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and later launched a 78.5-lb. scientific sub-satellite into orbit around the moon. Almost immediately, earthbound controllers detected radio signals from the $1.7 million instrument package. The satellite's sensors will provide new information about the plasmas and magnetic field in the vicinity of the moon. Ground trackers, recording irregularities in the satellite's orbit...
...time to fight some more. After lofting his 6-iron shot onto the fringe of the 18th green, he putted to within 18 in. of the cup and holed out a birdie four to win with four consecutive sub-par rounds: 69, 70, 69 and 70. In the short span of one month, Lee Buck Trevino?Mexican-American, grade-school dropout, ex-Marine sergeant and all-round hustler?had become the first golfer in history to win the British, Canadian and U.S. Opens in the same year. "Now," he cried, "maybe they'll consider me a good international player...
...troop-reduction talks would be the conventional-arms equivalent of the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. But they would be even more complicated. For all its complexity, SALT involves only two nations and deals with relatively few types of weapons, notably intercontinental ballistic missiles, sub-launched missiles, plane-borne H-bombs and anti-ballistic missiles. By contrast, troop reductions could directly affect as many as 20 nations and would deal with a welter of men, weapons, firepower and geographical considerations...
From a nearby navy minesweeper came a shout: "Where do you think you are? This isn't the Sea of Galilee." That sort of humor no longer bothers bearded Sub-Lieutenant Alan Hogarth, 33, a supply officer currently stationed near London. Since early 1970, when he decided to walk on water, he has become inured to jokes about his "Jesus Boots," the strange contraptions that make his watery strolls possible...