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Peach Bowl, January 2, at Atlanta: January 2? January 2? You gotta be kidding. 8-3 Virginia Tech and 8-3 Miami, Fla., will suffer from severe lack of exposure. They constitute a classic case of anti-climax. Miami...
Tangerine Bowl, December 20, at Orlando, Fla.: Maryland (8-3) versus Florida (7-4). The Terrapins' Charlie Wysocki should run wild, but the Gators have the better squad. Together with the home field advantage, Florida's superior talent and the experience of playing tough games (it held second-ranked Florida State close last weekend) should push the Gators over...
DIED. John S. Pennington, 56, who as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal revealed vote fraud in a 1962 Georgia state senate race and turned the apparent loser into a winner, giving Jimmy Carter his first political victory; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Only two months ago, Carter told Pennington, who moved to the St. Petersburg Times in 1977: "I never would have gone for office again if I had lost that...
DEATH REVEALED. Willie Sutton, 79, master of meticulously planned bank robberies, whose ingenious disguises earned him the sobriquet "the Actor"; of a stroke; on Nov. 2; in Spring Hill, Fla. Sutton, who stole an estimated $2 million during a period of 35 years and broke out of three prisons before completing his final sentence in 1969, once said: "I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life...
Though Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 1977, two weeks after an identical twin, Voyager 2, it followed a less curved trajectory and reached Saturn nine months ahead of the other ship. Voyager 2 is not scheduled to pass Saturn until next August. Because it is taking such a different trajectory, Voyager 2 will be able to study some of the moons that had to be bypassed during last week's encounter. It will also be able to sail on to Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Thus, if the spacecraft's instruments...