Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill Murphy, Steve Krause, and Mike Cahalan are all hoping to cap fine seasons with a strong showing in the Nationals. Murphy is not yet sure if he will go, but as perhaps the best diver in the East, there is no question that he is qualified. And added incentive for Murphy is the opportunity to defeat Dartmouth's Mike Brown, whom Murphy beat in this winter's duel meet but lost to in the Easterns...
...months, the East Germans and Soviets had threatened a new Berlin cri sis if the West Germans persisted in their plan to convene the Federal Republic's electoral college in the western half of the divided former German cap ital. Last week, as 1,023 West German electors met in West Berlin's cavernous East Prussia Hall and by a narrow margin selected Socialist Gustav Heinemann to succeed retiring President Heinrich Lübke as West German head of state, the Communist response was relatively mild and constrained...
Five days later, if all goes well, Mariner 7, a second Mars probe, will make a sweep across the south polar regions of the planet, shooting closeup photographs of the white polar cap and areas that appear to change color seasonally. Mariner 7 is scheduled to be launched on March 24, but will take less time than its predecessor to make the trip; its trajectory is different and the Earth will have moved some 25 million miles closer to Mars during the month that separates the shots...
Between them, the two probes should photograph about 20% of the surface of Mars, compared to the 1% covered by Mariner 4. In addition, batteries of instruments aboard the spacecraft will measure surface temperatures and analyze the composition of the atmosphere and of the south polar ice cap...
...more attractive for all that. In personal affairs, he never forgave a slight, keeping a list of people who had insulted him and carefully noting the date when he considered that he had repaid them. He dueled often, one time so disdainfully that he ate cherries out of his cap and calmly spat the pits in his opponent's direction...