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...fashioning Skylab's makeshift sunshade, refused to give up. Experimenting with duplicates of tools aboard Skylab, they devised techniques for cutting, sawing and even prying off the metal. Practicing with these tools in simulated conditions of weightlessness in NASA'S big water test tank at Huntsville, Ala., Backup Astronauts Rusty Schweickart and Ed Gibson demonstrated that the implements might well work in space...
...cost them a chance at being the first Eastern team in 14 years to win the title were the disappointing performances of their second and third jumpers who finished at 17 and 21. Kongsli and the Colorado jumpers were all in the 58-60 meter range, while the Vermont backup men found gravity much more irresistible and gave up the urge to flight at the fifty-meter mark...
...highlight of an otherwise dull popstar version of Tummy Merry's talents, though artistically evident, weren't really visible until she turned up on "Gimme Shelter," and then on Joe Cocker's first two albums, and like Claudia Lennear, she's parlayed her experience as a backup singer, into a solo career. This woman has a very large voice: you have to, to put balls into some of the stuff Carole King writes...
With 1:48 remaining in the contest, backup quarterback Brian Dowling hit Tom Reynolds for a 28-yard touchdown for the last Patriot scoring of the season...
...fact, the next two seasons produced nothing better than a backup signal caller position behind Tom Creevy, a tall, strong quarterback, who now plays linebacker for none other then--you guessed it--Ara Paraseghian and the fightin' laprochans. Creevy directed the squad to a dismal 5-4-1 record in 1968 and an undefeated season which netted the Knights a third place ranking in the Heosier State at the end of the year...