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...more sweeping trajectory around the sun and will just barely nose out its sister ship, arriving at Venus on Dec. 4. Its assignment is different too; it will ease into orbit around Venus, and in addition to scanning the atmosphere below with an array of instruments, it will beam powerful radar signals through the Venusian clouds and bounce them off the surface. Pioneer 1 will then radio the radar data back to earth, where scientists hope to produce a topographic map of 35% of the hidden Venusian surface showing details 100 meters (330 ft.) high and 16 km (10 miles...
...technical innovation in the Harvard pressbox which makes Cavileer beam with pride is the two-colored play-by-play sheets produce right after each quarter. Cavileer and Wood had to go down to the A.B. Dick Company headquarters to consult on a way of producing two colors on one carbon. "It was a great undertaking," Cavileer recalls solemnly, "No other school does it. Princeton tried to do it a couple of years ago and failed. The difference is in having people who are really interested in their work...
...though we waited all along for gifted Jim Rice to give us the game-winning moonshot that we all took for granted, the spotlight incidently fell on an athlete who knows its beam all too well...
...never had a chance. When the tremors began, most residents were at home, eating or enjoying the cool desert breeze that had begun to blow after torrid daytime temperatures. Once the shaking subsided, only six buildings in the town were still recognizable. Even the few newer buildings of steel-beam construction had collapsed...
...much you can get away with. (Remember, they're probably lying too.) Get drunk, or whatever. The first night I was here in 1975 was the best night of Freshman Week for me, because I met up with my future roommates, some ice, and a quart of Jim Beam. We've all been friends ever since...