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Along with speed and shooting eyes, the varsity this year has an average height of 6 feet 1 inch. Lionette at 6 feet 5 inches tops the team, with Shaw and Sachs about even at 6 feet 3 inches. Bulger is the only starter under six feet-he stretches to five feet 9 inches. Sachs and Lionette are consistently the best rebounders on the first five, though Manning covered the boards best for the team in its three scrimmages so far this fall...
McCurdy feels that his biggest replacement problems are in the high jump and shot put. Dick Barwise, Harvard high jump record holder and a consistent 6 foot 2 inch jumper, was the team's only threat. Now Bob Rittenburg. Ty Smith, and Don Whitehead are left, but none have broken six feet yet this year...
...subdued conversation and the swift, deft movement of red-coated waiters in the grand ballroom of London's Grosvenor House one day last week. Distinguished guests sipped and chatted at the invitation of the Iraq Petroleum Co., to celebrate the opening of a $115 million new 30-inch pipeline to the Mediterranean that promises to more than triple the output of Iraq's oil. The assembled guests watched a movie of the pipeline's construction, and applauded vigorously at the progress it augured. "You can be bloody sure," an I.P.C. press-agent confided to a newsman, "that...
...portable public-address system, equipped with battery, twelve-inch speaker and six transistors, which takes no time to warm up, can be carried in one hand...
...into the earth, new lengths of 60-ft. pipe were threaded on to join the mile-and-a-half of pipe already whirling below ground in a single, continuous column. At 8,663 ft. the drilling was stopped, the drill pulled out. Hurriedly the hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped. Then, when all was ready, the cap was opened. With a great hiss, jets of water and drilling-mud shot out of the hole. For a few minutes there was just the steady hissing of moist gas, smelling like rotten eggs. Then came the oil-a greenish...