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Painful Choice. Another bug-this one viral-made the hours before liftoff almost as tense as the launch itself. The countdown for the mission was about to begin when Astronaut Charles Duke, of the Apollo 13 back-up crew, complained of chills, fever and a rash. Doctors diagnosed his illness...
NASA was faced with a painful choice. If Mattingly were allowed to go on the mission, he might well be disabled by the disease (which can blur vision and swell the joints in the hand), perhaps while alone in orbit around the moon. If the mission were delayed until the...
Regan, too, has been trying to develop in this spring's team the discipline which has been so absent in recent years. Recently, while the Crimson was doing its daily 100 jumping jacks someone got out of step on number 75, and Regan had everyone start all over again. "He...
But with the season only seven days away, DeMichele is once again the team's back-up third baseman. He is being pushed hard for the starting job by sophomore Mike Thomas. "He's doing a really great job and I've got my hands full," DeMichele said.
Yale has two outstanding freestylers-John Nelson and Mike Cadden-and excellent men in each of the specialty strokes, as well as great back-up strength. Harvard's ability to score will depend on how much Yale coach Phil Moriarty uses his best men.