19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
April 04, 1966
STICKS AND STONESSirs:Accolades to Dan Jenkins on his magnificently perceptive article (One Point Six, Pick Up Sticks, March 21). It has long seemed wrong to me that those colleges with good student-athletes (and they represent the vast majority) must continually meet teams with boys that do not read or write very well. The NCAA's One Point Six rule is a brave effort to reduce this kind of thing.JOHN A. LUCASUniversity Park, Pa.
In the case of the high equivalent air speeds at high altitude which Lieutenant Schneidler mentioned, he has introduced super-and hypersonic complications. Nevertheless, I believe the average jet-fighter air frame, modified as I have suggested, could readily withstand the high Q of a safely subsonic 600-mph-plus run through near-sea-level air densities to set a new land-speed record.
COMMANDER R.K. AWTREY, USN
New York City