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...must have. By week's end he had tied Nicklaus for the top prize in the Jacksonville Open pro-amateur, picking up another $462.50. And he did it all with the silliest swing in golf. Sanders stands stiff-legged, brings his club back such a short way that other pros say he "could swing in a telephone booth." With Jack Nicklaus still looking for his first victory of the year, Gary Player trying to commute from South Africa, and Arnie Palmer semiretired from the tour-he has played in only five of ten tournaments-Sanders sees no reason...
...forward pass was illegal, and the basic notion was the wedge - heads down, backs stiff, muscles tense, and PUSH! Stagg made it fun to watch and infinitely more fun to play. He dreamed up the huddle, the direct pass from center, the shift, the man in motion, the unbalanced line, the onside kick, the delayed buck, the sleeper play, the Statue of Liberty. In 1906, the year the forward pass was legalized, he had 64 pass plays in his playbook - and Chicago lost only one game, to Minnesota, 4-2. He coached at Chicago for 41 years, fielded four unbeaten...
...pressure inside and the vacuum outside tends to make the suit as tight as a drumhead. To move at all, arms and legs must be fitted with accordion-like joints. To judge by his motions, Leonov could move his arms fairly freely, but his legs and torso seemed stiff and straight most of the time...
...Lava. A suit designed for use in weightless space can include several hundred pounds of instruments, oxygen, propellant, cooling agent, tools and other supplies. The wearer will not feel the weight, only the inertial mass. For some missions his less and torso will need little flexibility; they can stay stiff while the man works with his arms and moves around with his rocket thrusters...
...wearer to clamber around on the moon's surface, which is probably covered in many places with chunks of rubble and unstable dusty slopes. One U.S. astronaut recently put on a moon-exploration space suit and stumbled across a lava bed in Oregon. He found the knees too stiff for such work, and the suit is being made more limber...