Word: triumph
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Capt. Dyke Benjamin sliced 11 seconds off the course record at Franklin Park yesterday as he led the varsity cross-country team to its fifth consecutive victory in a 17 to 40 triumph over the University of Massachusetts. Benjamin paced the Crimson harriers in the record time of 25 min., 36 secs...
...because Pioneer's instruments flashed reams of new knowledge of outer space. Britain's top scientists called it "an amazing feat," "a most tremendous achievement." Paris' Roman Catholic daily, La Croix, echoed: "The most prodigious event in history." India's Nehru called it a "tremendous triumph of modern science," wagged: "I understand it has strayed from the straight and narrow path. Nevertheless the fact that it has been sent out is another great advance." A Soviet official in London expressed "all good wishes...
...moon-probe Pioneer is man's first triumph in applied celestial mechanics. Earth satellites, like bullets, baseballs or missiles, need to contend with the earth's gravitation only. Pioneer was born on a higher level of technical evolution. Its projected course toward the moon took into account three of the overlapping gravitational fields (the earth's, the sun's, the moon's) that govern the solar system. To set it on its trajectory called on theoretical astronomical and mathematical lore that man has painstakingly been accumulating without practical employment since the birth of science...
Columbia fumbles and ragged play converted a simple Harvard victory into a near rout at Baker's Field Saturday. The clearly superior Crimson squad gratefully took advantage of a series of Lion mistakes, contributed scoring punch when it was needed, and rolled to a 26-0 triumph over the New Yorkers...
...junior varsity next engages Dart-mouth on Friday, Oct. 24. Yesterday's triumph, the first since a victory over Dean Academy in 1955 and the first over a college squad since the 1954 Yale game, augurs well for the future...