Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusk fell over London's White City Stadium last June 10, Harvard's Joel Landau stood at the starting line for the 4 X 110 relay with the failure or success of the Harvard-Yale track team's mission in England hanging upon what he and three other runners did in the next 40-odd seconds. As it turned out, the four determined sprinters--Landau and Frank Yeomans of Harvard and Jay Luck and Jim Carney of Yale--won the final relay and gave the Americans a thrilling 8-7 victory over the combined forces of Oxford and Cambridge...
...Oxford's Gilligan. While the Americans religiously abstained from alcohol and tobacco before the big meet, the British, deception aside, showed no aversion to a few puffs or a small snort. Gilligan made a great show just before the start of the two-mile, parading up and down the track with a cigar clenched in his teeth...
...events on the fall schedule, the HMSC has planned three more gymkhanas and one more rallye later this year. Further, according to Jones, the club intends to hold an auto-cross at Orange Air Base sometime next spring. This event, in which cars race individually around a track and compete on a best time basis, is the first of its kind to be sponsored by a college organization...
...remodeled on a familiar U.S. pattern: the big, inclusive high school. They have headaches also familiar to Americans, including Teddy boys who carry flick knives to class, smash windows, abuse masters. But they do solve the basic problem: how to give late starters a chance to switch from one track to another. Says Headmaster George Rogers of London's Walworth Secondary School: "This year I shall have a sixth form of 20 students all studying for certificates at university-entrance levels. Not bad for eleven-plus failures...
...burn additional fuel to speed it up, slow it down or move it sideways. The necessary orders can be given by radio from the ground or by the rocket's own inertial guidance system. If the orders came from the ground, the problem was to get an accurate track of the rocket's course. The cloud of glowing sodium that the rocket released may have been used to reveal its position, allowing the scientists to get a visual fix and to radio the proper corrective maneuvers to the rocket...