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...minutes, its engine fired again, soaring out on a curving course that would lead to Venus. A few minutes later, a cluster of exploding pins popped and the spacecraft spread its, wings into the hard sunlight. All this was reported by telemetry to JPL's 85-ft. dish antenna in South Africa and relayed to the control center at the lab. "We were flying blind during lift-off and injection," says Bill Collier, Assistant Project Manager. "But about the time the panels came open, there was a shift of facial styles from worried scowls to big fat grins." Mariner...
...members of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club chose tasty Film Star Shirley MacLaine, 28, as their Woman of the Year. Accepting a brass pudding pot from Club President David Rockefeller Jr.. Shirley proved to be everybody's dish. "I like it here so much I might move right in,'' said she to hungry applause. "I would like very much to be educated, but it's too late-I'm a millionaire...
...Health Services are checking washing procedures and the temperature of the water in the dish-washing machines of the Houses to determine the source of the contamination, according to Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris, director of the Environmental Health and Safety Department...
...appreciate The Crucible without actually going to it (and if you haven't gone already, for Heaven's sake don't), you have to have savored a potato kugel heartburn. Potato kugel is a greasy dish made of ground potatoes, egg, and too much chicken schmaltz. Going down it is very smooth, but it keeps on insisting how good it tasted all evening long...
...Imagine James Bond rejecting a dish like that!) Buchan dealt in other literary coinage-glints of dry Scots humor, an eloquent fondness for the British countryside, the straightforward invocation of courage and comradeship in danger. The face on the coin is Victorian, but it rings true...