Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only five days before the key game with Michigan, No. 2 team in the nation, gloom shrouded Army's football field at West Point. Army's swift halfback and 1955 team captain, Mike Zeigler, was under punishment, walking with his rifle in the barracks area instead of practicing plays. His offense: though a first-rate student and on the dean's list, Cadet Zeigler had drunk a beer in an officers' mess. He was stripped of his team captaincy and barred from football for the season...
...swift rise of the 1955 bull market was based on one big premise: President Eisenhower would be elected for a second term in 1956 and the U.S. economic boom would continue, unhindered by any political changes. As the news of Ike's heart attack shattered that confidence, the stock market suffered its worst fall in 26 years. For Wall Streeters the weekend announcement could not have come at a worse time, for the first impulse of thousands upon thousands of small stockholders was to sell. As the selling orders poured in by wire on Sunday to brokerage houses...
...Sept. 14, the six-man expedition, organized by adventurer-lecturer Arthur Moffatt, '36, of Norwich, Vt., and consisting, besides Franck, of three Dartmouth students, Bruce LeFavour, Joseph Lanouette, and Fred Pessl, together with George Grinnell, was paddling down the swift Dubawnt River, about 900 miles north of Winnipeg...
...high Himalayas, polyandry has the sanction of immemorial legend. According to the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India, Arjuna the Bowman, third of the five sons of King Pandu, won Draupadi, daughter of the King of Panchala, by shooting five swift arrows through a ring hung in midair. But Arjuna's mother Kunti told him, "All things must be shared." So the five Pandu brothers all wed Draupadi and went to live in a grand palace with crystal floors. Last week in Jaunswar Bawar, a region in the northern tip of India, the legend of Arjuna the Bowman...
...aviation's annual Cheney Award for his contributions to space medicine. Dr. Stapp's most spectacular bit of research: setting a world land-speed record of 632 m.p.h. on a rocket-propelled sled (TIME, Jan. 10) while testing firsthand the reactions of airmen to bullet-swift speeds and brain-jarring stops...