Word: speed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Rice was a bit tougher." The scouts regard Illinois' Joe Rutgens, 21 (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), as a likely defensive tackle. Though he is a tackle at Georgia Tech, Billy Shaw, 21 (6 ft. 3 in., 238 Ibs.), has the agility and speed to play guard with the pros...
...keep Bellino out of football. Ranked right alongside Bellino: Tom Mason, 21, Tulane; 6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs. Although U.P.I, and A.P. relegated Mason to their third-team All-America, many pros call him the nation's finest back: "He's a slashing runner with great speed, and he hits with abandon." Also high on the pros' lists are Syracuse Junior Ernie Davis ("He's another Jimmy Brown"), Washington State's Keith Lincoln ("One of the real triple threats in the game"), and New Mexico State's Pervis Atkins, drafted last year...
Fullback: Bob Ferguson, 21, Ohio State; 6 ft., 225 Ibs. A junior, Ferguson has surprising speed in addition to pure brute power. "He runs over people-the other guys, his own guys, everybody...
...Soviet woman scientist, Geophysicist V. A. Troitskaya, reports that the shots showed up almost instantly on Soviet instruments designed to measure minute electric currents flowing through the earth. Apparently the explosions caused disturbances in the earth's magnetic field, and these spread as waves, moving with almost the speed of light. At almost the same instant, Soviet monitoring stations in the Pacific, in Central Asia, on the Black Sea, and near Murmansk in extreme northwestern Russia recorded the waves clearly. After studying the records, Dr. Troitskaya decided that the final Argus blast on Sept 6, exploded a small fraction...
...these tools, the U.S. Army Medical Service added an important contribution. The Pentagon this week announced development of a suitcase-sized, portable X-ray unit that weighs only 85 Ibs. (v. ordinary half-ton hospital X-ray machines) and operates at such high speed that it will not blur film during chest X rays even if the patient is breathing normally...