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...remember Rob Steinberg attempting a punt against a horrific Princeton rush; they had sent everybody. The punt would have been blocked--except Steinberg kicked the ball where nobody could get it, netting a 33-yd. punt which looked like an Astro-Turf single...
Davis, who became only the second Astro to hit 30 or more homers in a season with 31 this year, hit a 1-0 pitch from Gooden to straightaway center field to lead off the second. Center fielder Lenny Dykstra was at the wall waiting, but there was no chance...
With morning play scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m., and finals slated to start around 8 p.m., the 10 competing squads will fight it out on the astro turf for indoor soccer bragging rights...
...They played prerecorded videotapes of the ill-fated astronauts, interviewed their own correspondents in Cape Canaveral and elsewhere, trotted out scale models of the shuttle to describe how it func tioned and scrambled to round up "experts" who might be able to explain what had happened. ABC got former Astro naut Gene Cernan to its Houston studios. CBS brought on Leo Krupp, a former test pilot for Rockwell International, and NBC recruited former Astronaut Donald ("Deke") Slayton...
NASA scientists insist that given the briefness and the danger of the flybys, Astro-1 could actually end up gleaning more information about Halley's than the probes do. "Our mission may not be as dramatic," says Knox Long, a Johns Hopkins University scientist on the Astro project, "but we're getting the most bang for the buck...