Word: yds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-range ballistic missile must be steered in the right direction and must attain the right speed. If it is traveling 23,000 ft. per sec. (15,600 m.p.h.), an error of I ft. per sec. in its top speed will make it miss its target by 500 yds. So when the desired speed has been reached, the thrust must be cut off accurately in a small fraction of a second. This is not too difficult with liquid-fuel rockets, whose thrust can be cut by shutting off the fuel. Solid-fuel rockets cannot be controlled in this simple...
...hung back, well off the pace. When Grim faded, Ron got up on his toes and ran for the record. But he was running all alone. There was no one left to push him to that necessary extra effort. He scored his 22nd consecutive indoor victory by 30 yds., and his time of 4:04.6 missed the world indoor mark by one second...
...Melbourne, Aussie Herb Elliott, 19, ground out his second better-than-four-minute-mile in a week. Elliott was clocked in 3:58.7, just 2 yds. ahead of his countryman Merv Lincoln (3:59). But winning was a disappointment: what Elliott had wanted to do was break John Landy's Australian record...
...Immigrant Jon Konrads, 15, that the tireless teen-ager barely paused for breath before splashing back into North Sydney's Olympic pool and churning past four more marks. He finished the 440-yd. grind in 4:25.9, which was a 400-meter record as well. He sprinted 220 yds. in 2:04.8, setting a new 200-meter mark in the process...
Weakling Oregon had outgained Ohio State (351 yds. to 304 yds.), and rung up more first downs (21 to 19), but Buckeye Coach Woody Hayes was satisfied. Said he: "The better team wins, always. And we won." Oregon Coach Len "Cazz" Casanova, who was carried off the field by his players, had a simple explanation for their great game: "We've been derided by everyone. I just told the boys I wanted to be proud of them after it was all over...