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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Norris Childs and Tom Dublia have pole-vaulted 12-6 and should win places on the varsity, which has only one 12-foot vaulter returning. Carter Lord, Ros Wilson, and Clark Lemke are strong at the shot and weight. Lord, who combines the unlikely talents of shotputter and sprinter, will forego track this spring to go out for the freshman baseball team...
...stocky Hashim does not look like any kind of an athlete. He is bald, har bandy legs, and is only 5-51/2; his weight in the last 15 years has soared from 117 to 150. But when he starts to move to the court, it is a sight to behold...
...head of a "government of public welfare," Moise Tshombe has ruled for eight months without the weight of a Parliament around his neck. What with the rebels in the northeast, nearly half the nation under a state of emergency, and much of the rest crippled by anarchy, he would probably be happy to continue governing by decree indefinitely. But African public opinion demands the trappings of democracy, and under the elaborate constitution drawn up last year, Tshombe must call elections before April 1. This week, barely two weeks before the deadline, they begin...
...Life. A slot car is a plastic scale model of a real car. It runs on a slotted track. A fin under the nose of the car fits into the slot but does not lock there-nothing but the car's weight keeps it in place. Power is provided by electric current picked up by brushes that run along the metal strips flanking the slot. Race tracks have from four to six slots running parallel, each connected to a rheostat to enable the "driver" to control the car's speed. Herein lies the skill; going into a turn...
...funds. Work on the drawing boards and in the wind tunnels has produced important design improvements in both the SST's airframe (for which Boeing and Lockheed are competing) and engines (General Electric v. Pratt & Whitney). The airframe makers have discovered that a relatively small reduction in airframe weight produces a disproportionately larger increase in payload; a 1% reduction, for example, would increase the payload by 10%. National Aeronautics and Space Administration research has given increased hope for solving the problems of sonic boom. And estimates of the world market for the SST have been raised from 200 planes...