Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Feitelberg, also "love the old commercials. Even in those days you had your laxatives, your cars, your gasolines, your soap powders." Indeed, members of Manhattan's Radio Library Society start each meeting by linking arms and singing one of the most famous commercials-the one that accompanied Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy: "Won't you buy Wheaties, the best breakfast food in the land! Won't you try Wheaties ..." The melody lingers on, but Jack-and Little Orphan Annie and Buck Rogers-are only memories. Recordings of their series have disappeared and, radio fans fear...
Harvard entertained no doubts about the outcome after the singles matches got underway. Army boasted only one strong player, Jim Armstrong from southern California, who took Harvard's top man, Ken Lindner, to three sets before losing, 7-6, 6-7, 6-4, in a two-and-one-half hour marathon...
Lindner won the first set, 7-6, after being down, 3-1, in the tie-breaker. In the second set the Harvard senior fought off four match points, tying Armstrong, 6-6, and rallying from 3-0 to 4-4 in the tie-breaker, before falling during the decisive point to lose...
Both players broke serve early in the final set, and then Lindner jumped out to a 5-2 lead. Armstrong took the next two games but could not hold serve when down, 5-4, and Lindner went on to victory...
Corridors to Nowhere. At the space center in Houston, now renamed after Lyndon Johnson, the room where Neil Armstrong slept during his quarantine after man's first moon landing on July 21, 1969, has been turned into a commissary storeroom for ketchup and cookies. The massive lunar receiving laboratory, designed to analyze the 838 lbs. of rocks hauled back from the moon, has been dismantled and turned into a medical research laboratory. The seven ultraviolet showers built to cleanse astronauts and technicians of unknown moon bugs are now stainless steel corridors leading nowhere...