Word: swiftness
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...that would include the shuttling of trains from Oakland to San Francisco through a six-mile tube under the bay. Now it takes a commuter an hour to drive the 20 miles from Orinda to the downtown area; the transit system would whisk him there in 18 minutes aboard swift, silent trains that would run every 90 seconds during rush hours. The 26-mile trip between San Francisco and southern Alameda County now takes 1½ hours by car in heavy traffic; by train, it would take 31 minutes...
...game continued in this manner until the beginning of the last quarter. With ambidexterous quarterback John McCluskey directing the team, the Crimson offense began to move, and finally scored on a 25 yard pass from McCluskey to Leo Swift. Roger Noback booted the extra point, giving the Crimson the slim lead which it managed to hold for the rest of them game...
Sensational as it was, the Kim-Choi scandal had to share the headlines with another story. After his swift coup in May 1961, General Park Chung Hee pledged that his 32-man junta would go back to the barracks "when all revolutionary tasks have been accomplished." The strongman, who so far has done an impressive job of ridding South Korea of corruption and creating a measure of economic stability, last week published a draft constitution that will restore civilian rule by next summer. But when Park goes back to the barracks, it will be merely to change into civvies...
Open Intercom. That fairly well symbolized the trouble with NBC this year. The network's "Dewline" tabulation-a system that stationed NBC stringers in hundreds of voting districts-was swift and often ahead of the competition. At 7:35 p.m., for instance, NBC had 25% of the Connecticut senatorial vote, while CBS had only 15% and ABC 8%. But the commentary of NBC's public-affairs stars, from Huntley and Brinkley to Merrill Mueller, Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur, John Chancellor et al., lacked yeast. Brinkley may have had something when he said that the computer was likely...
After the Crimson's feeble performance against Dartmouth two weeks ago, it seemed the varsity's best defense against the swift Princeton backfield would surely be prayer. But John Yovicsin's outfit turned in its top performance of the year in routing Penn, 36-0, last weak in the rain and the cold. And the talk this week where the faithful gather has been cautiously optimistic...