Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLIAM MAROLT. 19. of Aspen. Colo., was the surprising youngster who beat both Werner and Minsch in Alaska by streaking over Mount Alyeska's 8.440-ft. downhill course at a speed of 44.7 m.p.h. Son of a bartender. Bill is a University of Colorado sophomore and the best new downhill prospect...
...motive for being the raider's well-paid Trojan horseman. These revelations are not so much jolting glimpses of human frailty as they are dismaying exposures of gimcrack theatrical carpentry. The motive of the raider (Gerald S. O'Loughlin) is typically yawn-provoking. As a youngster he waited on table for "polite boys" in button-down collars, and has venomously turned the tables ever since. Hero Cotten is a kind of airborne Hamlet who has always eluded company and husbandly duties by taking off in his Beechcraft Bonanza. How he comes to terms with his hated father...
Even before he reached his teens, Lev Davidovic Landau was a mathematical prodigy. Before he graduated from the University of Leningrad, the youngster from Azerbaijan was publishing respected scientific papers. As he developed into one of the Soviet Union's leading scientists, he became an expert in many of the far-ranging fields of physics. If he resented the fact that he was rarely trusted to go abroad unchaperoned to collect the numerous awards he won from admiring Western colleagues, he gave no indication. He went right on working, and last week he got his biggest prize...
Myers' gift showed up somewhat late. As a youngster in Troy, Ohio, he preferred the fife to football. "My mother made my brother Mike a football outfit," he says. "She made me a band uniform." But Tommy turned out for football in the seventh grade, became a quarterback largely by the process of elimination: "I wasn't fast enough to be a halfback, and I wasn't big enough to be a lineman." At first, he threw his passes sidearm-which mattered little, because Troy High never passed anyway: the star of the team...
...football into the center of a 2-ft. bull's-eye from 20 yds. away. Troy High's coach rebuilt his offense after Ferguson graduated-and Myers was it. By the time he was ready to graduate, he had offers from 15 colleges. But when the lanky youngster turned up at Northwestern, Coach Parseghian wondered if the band might not be the best place for him after all. "He was such a white-faced, pale-looking kid that I thought he had mononucleosis...