Word: armstrong
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Harvard's second score was more straightforward, coming after Joe Azelby recovered a fumble on the Quaker 32. A pass interference call on safety Ross Armstrong, covering Crimson tight end Peter Ceko, moved the ball inside the one to set up Gizzi's quarterback sneak for six points...
DIED. Lucille Armstrong, 69, fourth wife of the late Louis Armstrong, who since her husband's death had continued as a globetrotting good-will ambassador for American jazz; of cardiac arrest; while visiting Boston. The couple met when Lucille was a dancer at Harlem's Cotton Club and were married for 31 years, until Satchmo's death...
After a few short but interminable seconds, U.S. Astronaut Neil Armstrong placed his foot firmly on the fine-grained surface of the moon. The time was 10:56 p.m., E.D.T., July 20, 1969. Pausing briefly, the first man on the moon spoke the first words on lunar soil...
...harsh light of the lunar morning. "The surface is fine and powdery, it adheres in fine layers, like powdered charcoal, to the soles and sides of my foot," he said. "I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles." Minutes later, Armstrong was joined by Edwin Aldrin. Then, gaining confidence with every step, the two jumped and loped across the barren landscape for 2 hrs. 14 min., while the TV camera they had set up some 50 ft. from Eagle transmitted their movements with remarkable clarity to enthralled audiences on earth, a quarter...
...orbiting command module and the lunar module emerged from behind the moon, having undocked while they were out of radio communication, an anxious capsule commentator in Houston inquired: "How does it look?" Replied Armstrong: "The Eagle has wings." The lunar module was on its own, ready for its landing on the moon...