Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oarsmen lined the shores, cheering as the sculling Crimeds, unpracticed since they retired the Janiero Cup on the Tagus last year, clocked the astonishing time of 4:22.3 over the measured mile. As one veteran, himself once known as "the Jim Thorpe of rowing"--exclaimed, "These youngsters have shown out here today that skill and integrity still have a place in collegiate athletics...
...Uniforms. For spacemen, the seven were remarkably down to earth. Despite the TV lights and the press-agentry at a packed Washington press conference, they showed such a basic earnestness and airman's conditioned self-possession, that 200 hard-to-impress capital reporters lustily applauded them. All were veteran test pilots, skilled in wringing out all manner of aircraft for the design engineers. Three were naval officers (two Annapolis graduates), three from the Air Force (no West Pointers), and one was-as he put it-"a lonely marine." Obviously the selectors of the seven had remembered the separate services...
What will the first Mercury Astronaut feel, see and hear? Last week an eloquent forecast came from Navy Captain Norman Barr, veteran flight surgeon and pilot (12,500 hours), who helped set the physical requirements for the space-bound seven. Said Dr. Barr to the American Academy of General Practice in San Francisco...
...committee, as Lawyer Stewart well knew, was run by Mississippian James O. Eastland, a veteran lawyer himself, and was studded with high-seniority Southerners. Still and forevermore rankled by the high court's 1954 school desegregation ruling-a case in which Stewart played no part-Eastland & Co. lost no time putting Stewart on trial...
Sophomore Al Martin, who batted 400 on the Crimson's successful Southern trip, will be at first base, veteran Levon "Mouse" Kasarjian will start at shortstop for the second straight year, and Byron Johnson is coach Norm Shepard's choice as starting pitcher...