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Stiles depends largely on the running of halfbacks Jim Shepard and Jon Mills. Those two scored consistently through the year, and Mills carried for one of the touchdowns against Edwards...
...Shepard also offers a passing threat. The other touchdown in the Stiles-Edwards game came on a toss from Shepard to end Jim Worcester...
...physical strength a man peaks at 21 and plateaus to the late 60s, the period when degenerative diseases stalk. The arduous training program of the astronauts, five of whom are over 40 (Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Donald Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom), has proved that a man can double his normal physical competence at ages much beyond 21. Any middle-ager's physiological potential is probably as unique as his fingerprints. The hair may grow thinner, but the capacity for mental growth is unimpaired in middle age. It is obvious that a man or woman of 40 can understand...
...there may be none in the end, for the essence of heroism is singularity. Lindbergh is perhaps the greatest of all American heroes, a machine-borne Icarus who did not fall. The astronauts are his heirs and yet they are already submerged in team heroism. First there was Alan Shepard, who was succeeded by the engaging John Glenn, and then Edward White was the first American to walk in space, and then ... By now few people can remember all the names. But the astronaut remains truly heroic as a composite figure...
Harvard had gone ahead in the ninth with a desperate rally of its own. Trailing 3-2, the Crimson picked up one run on Jim Tobin's triple, a walk, and Coach Norm Shepard's favorite weapon, a suicide squeeze. Then Joe O'Donnell, breaking out of a season-long slump, drove in the lead run with a single...