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...first ship from earth to orbit another planet. The target was Sagan's old favorite, Mars. In less than a year of reconnaissance, the robot accumulated more information about the Red Planet than had been gathered in three centuries of earlier observation from earth. Yet to Sagan's chagrin, the feat was virtually ignored by American television. Four years later, the even more spectacular Viking landings on Mars were again all but ignored. Sagan decided something had to be done. Joining up with an equally dismayed colleague at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, B. Gentry Lee, Sagan sought sponsors...
During all of these splashing, yelling casualties, the clock ticks on, and boats eager to get through entangle themselves worse, to the chagrin of spectators on the bridges above them. These are the moments when people ask, "Is this really championship racing, or just a glorified raft-race...
...choppers were standing by. The Devils jumped into the restaurant's car park, where they were met by chefs in running shoes, who sprinted with the birds to preheated ovens. The cost: at least $10,000. Elapsed time between bag and bite: 3 hr. 14 min. To its chagrin, London's Ritz Hotel was beaten out when a Scottish fog grounded its grouse shuttle, a World War II Lysander aircraft...
Officials in Belgrade diplomatically declared that "we don't measure the feelings of the government by the level of the delegation." But the Yugoslavs' chagrin was expressed privately in many quarters. Reflecting the sharp reactions of the European allies, a Bonn Chancellery official said: "Carter is conspicuous by his absence. Once again he has been outmaneuvered, and took bad advice." The most scathing comment was made by the London Times, which editorially declared "that the United States is being led by a man who is not just muddled, but is in some way blind to whole areas...
...running alongside a 73-year-old man. "At the 17-mile mark I was shoulder to shoulder with this guy running his 50th Marathon," Weston explained yesterday. At the 20-mile mark, a policeman called out, 'Let's have a big hand for John Kelley,' and much to my chagrin I realized they weren't yelling...