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...Discoverers, 500 years earlier a civil servant named Su Sung had built a remarkably accurate astronomical clock for his Emperor. But when a new ruler was crowned in 1094, officials, according to custom, decreed that his predecessor's calendar had been faulty. Su Sung's 30-ft.-tall "heavenly clockwork" was abandoned. By the 17th century, it was a legend known to only a few scholars...
...supposed to be another space spectacular, the kind NASA used to pull off like clockwork: astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis had plans to dangle a half-ton satellite on a 20.1-km (12 1/2-mile) tether, forming the biggest single orbiting object in history. But like so many of the space agency's ambitious projects lately, this one didn't quite work out. The Italian-made satellite rose properly from the shuttle on a 10-m (39-ft.) boom, but the astronauts couldn't pull out its auxiliary power cord. When they finally got the cord out and began unreeling...
During the second quarter the Crimson offensive moved like clockwork as Mike Giardi led Harvard on a 75-yard charge upfield in five plays...
Look for Coach Joe Restic to continue with last week's game plan: the Mike Giardi-Robb Hirsch connection ran like clockwork against Princeton, with halfback Hirsch barrelling for yards and snagging Giardi's passes in fine form...
Other numbers--including that paragon of male bonding, "Johnny O'Connor," and a powerful "Walk Between the Raindrops"--followed like clockwork, and the set reached a climax with a riveting rendition of William Blake's "Jerusalem," featuring a rich solo from Ignatius...