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Harvard frosh aces Mike Koerner and Rick Jurgens are not in peak form, and the Yardlings may have to depend upon their relatively untested backup runners to break up Penn's scorers...
There is evidence that other teams are pointing for Harvard in hopes of breaking McCurdy's string of fourteen consecutive dual meet victories. If Hardin, Pottetti, Shaw and company are still stiff from Wednesday's race, or if several of Harvard's backup scorers get left behind in a fast start, there could be a real scramble for the finish...
Because planetary exploration "is no longer a primitive and risky art," the scientists say, the accepted practice of launching two spacecraft to accomplish the same mission, and the construction of a third duplicate craft as a "backup," in the event of twin failure, is largely unnecessary. They recommend, however, that NASA proceed with the only planetary flight now funded and scheduled-a photographic flyby of Mars in 1969 by two Mariner spacecraft. The flights would not be redundant, the report notes, because each Mariner is scheduled to photograph a different area of the Martian surface...
Forest of Papers. Harriman left the wrangling over procedure to his backup man, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, who spent three hours and 45 minutes clearing away the underbrush with Colonel Ha. In the actual talks, Hanoi is immediately expected to demand, in Thuy's words, "the unconditional cessation of the U.S. bombing raids and all other acts of war" against the North before going on to other subjects. The U.S., in turn, is certain to demand some reciprocal gesture from Hanoi, though the Administration's bedrock definition of reciprocity is still in flux. Saigon...
Today's team consist of three midfielders who can roam into any area of the field and boost the attack or backup the defense; three defensemen usually permitted only in the two sectors of the field closest to the goal they are protecting; and three attackmen, normally restricted to the two areas farthest from their own goal...