Word: toughest
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...most of last week the toughest athlete on the Texas A.&M. campus felt terrible. His team had frittered away two football games in a row; instead of finishing the season No. 1 in the country, the Aggies had fallen to tenth, and third in their own Southwest Conference. And Halfback John David Crow figured that it was all his fault. "When we got beat," said Crow, "I felt like I'd let everybody down...
Last year's freshman captain, John Watkins, who normally wrestles at 130 lbs., will open at 137. He could make the 130 lb. position one of the varsity's strongest. Pickett rates this weight one of the toughest classes for this season...
...toughest problems of space navigation is to dress spacemen so they can live and function outside the controlled environment of their cabins. Even for high-altitude airplane pilots, protective suits are essential. Above 63,000 ft. (where the blood boils), the air is as bad as a vacuum for any pilot who bails out into it. Last week the Air Force showed off a "full pressure suit" that is an advance over its predecessors. But it would not by any means permit its wearer to take a stroll on the moon...
...game Christmas trip through the midwestern states will highlight a regular season schedule of twenty-eight games. However the toughest part of the schedule may be the first four games of the season against B.U., B.C., Clarkson and St. Lawrence. The opening game with B.U. will be played Dec. 7 at the Boston Arena...
...Abilene last week enthusiasm ran so high that the Eagles played as if they didn't dare lose. They never stopped running until they had whipped Big Spring 32 to 0. With impressive ease they put themselves on top of the toughest schoolboy football league in the U.S.; their string of 44 straight victories makes them the Oklahoma of high schools...