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...temperature was near freezing. Flight officials held an urgent meeting, then made their decision: it was a go. Minutes later the Soviet Union's first space shuttle rose, unmanned, out of a giant fireball that spread over the steppe. Looking much like its U.S. counterpart, the white- tiled, double-delta-winged vehicle, called Buran (Snowstorm), made two orbits around the earth, then executed a perfect automated landing a few miles from where it had blasted off. Total flight time: 3 hours 25 minutes...
...early history of football at Harvard could easily have come out of a comic book. The first recorded account of a Harvard football game is an epic poem entitled "The Battle of the Delta." The poem, which is attributed to Rev. James C. Richmond. sings mock praise of a fierce football fight between the freshmen and sophomores in the autumn...
...football games were played where Memorial Hall now stands. The Delta battles evolved into "Bloody Monday," a wrestling match between the underclassmen...
Last winter, the university's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity advertised a tropical island party with a Black caricature on a sign on its front lawn. The incident resulted in scuffles between minority students and Phi Gamma Delta members...
Although the culprits--the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity--were never apprehended, the incident stamped an image on MIT that lingers to this day--pranksters too nerdy to field their own football team...