Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field events, Jim Doty in the weight throw and Tom Blodgett in the pole vault are the Crimson's best bets for high finishes. Hank Abbot has a chance to score in the shot, and the jumps are anybody's guess...
...seven earlier Vanguard firings, six had been failures, and the seventh put only a grapefruit-sized, 3.25-lb. satellite in orbit. Last week's shot was perfect. All three stages of the 72-ft., pencil-slim rocket fired without a hitch. The satellite, which had the full design weight of 21.5 Ibs., settled into an orbit slightly higher than had been expected. Its perigee (lowest point) is 347 miles above the earth; its apogee (highest point) is 2,065 miles. Its batteries will go dead in about two weeks. But unless some future space-cleaning agency removes...
...dash, University record-holder Sandy Dodge has little chance of beating Villanova's fleet Ed Collymore or Yale's Steve Snyder, but he should take one of the top five places. Jim Doty should finish fourth in the 35-1b. weight throw, behind Ed Bagdonas of Army and Eino Keerd and John Lawlor...
...Lightweight Champion Joe Brown, upset by Johnny Busso in an over-the-weight bout last November, was in no mood to trifle when the two met again last week with the championship at stake. Bobbing, weaving and occasionally uncorking powerful rights, he bloodied the challenger, decked him in the ninth round, coasted to an easy unanimous decision...
...opposition of the Curia. One must not forget that these cardinals in their ivory Vatican tower have never seen Protestants, and feel no need for contacts with something that to them does not exist. The Pope is a man of great experience. Let us hope he can make the weight of his enlightened judgment felt...