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...super-powerful telescope had been trained on the morning star last week, it might have seen a tiny, spidery object all vanes and antennae, creep slowly past the blazing crescent of Venus. This was the U.S. space-probe Mariner II. For more than four months it had drifted away from the earth, coasting down a long ellipse toward the orbit of Venus. Its radio voice grew faint as the miles multiplied into millions, then into tens of millions. But it was never too faint heard by anxious scientists at Goldstone station in the Mojave Desert...
...quarter Susan was complaining. About every two minutes she was complaining. About her feet, her hands, her bottom. I suggested that we leave. "Don't be a jerk," she replied cheerily, "I'm going to prove I'm gung-ho. We stay till the end." I watched the clock creep toward zero. Finally the last play was run off, or so I thought. There was time for one more and we sat down again. There was a puddle there...
...drafted, and sent to the front," an ominous-sounding male voice admonished. "The flames of war may creep in from the Caribbean and engulf your home...
...racks, each supported on eight crawler treads 12 ft. high. An umbilical tower will stand at one end, the rocket at the other end. When assembly is complete, the entire mechanism will creep to the launching sites at one mile per hour along wide, heavy-duty roads. The assembly building, crawlers, roads and launch sites for the C-5s will cost $400 million, which alone is nearly four times the yearly cost of maintaining all national parks...
...shadows of early evening were beginning to creep across the infield, but nobody made a move to leave. Other athletes in brightly colored warm-up suits lounged on the grass, spectators now themselves. The attention of everyone in cavernous Stanford Stadium was focused on a lanky figure poised at the end of the high-jump runway...