Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...senior at McClymonds High School in Oakland, Calif. Hines tied Jesse Owens' 31-year-old schoolboy mark of 9.4 sec. for 100 yds. That earned him a $1,200-a-year scholarship to Texas Southern. But when Hines first turned out for track at T.S.U., Coach Stan Wright was appalled: "Jim's starts were awful. He didn't concentrate...
...three years later, Wright calls Hines "the best sprinter I've ever coached." Jim himself thinks he can break four world records (100 yds., 100 meters, 220 yds. and 200 meters) this summer. He showed why last week when, on a slow track at the Los Angeles Coliseum, he beat San Jose State's Tommie Smith, the 220-yd. world recordholder (at 20 sec. flat) by three yards...
...years ago, Edwin Turner, a civilian electrical engineer in the Air Force Avionics Laboratory at Dayton's Wright-Patterson A.F.B., became convinced that a large antenna could be duplicated electronically by a smaller device. The solution, he felt intuitively, was a miniature antenna with an active, built-in transistor circuit. Unable to perfect the mini-antenna himself, he turned to other electronics experts for help but was told repeatedly that his concept was not feasible. To work efficiently, they said, an antenna had to be physically at least one-quarter as long as the wave length of its design...
...elected its officers for 1967-68: Andrew P. Tobias '68, president Richard T. Howe '69, Jeremy J. Kinross-Wright '68, Stephrn B. Roy '68, Robert R. Weller '68, Jeffrey G. Wright '68, student directors; John F. Bevilaqua '69, treasurer; Max Lee Kiehne '68, clerk...
Died. Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, 87, pioneer U.S. military aviator, who soloed in 1910 in a Wright Brothers plane ("It was my first takeoff, first landing and first crack-up"), was the first to fly combat against Pancho Villa along the Mexican border in 1916, first to fly more than 100 miles nonstop, first to operate a radio in flight, first to command the fledgling U.S. Air Service First Army in World War I and, before retiring in 1935, the man who selected the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress to fill U.S. needs for a long-range bomber...