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Hail Columbia [April 20], the gem of the galaxy...
...themselves. "Terrific!" shouted Dennis O'Connell, a truck driver from Queens, N.Y., as he paused in a Manhattan pub to watch the landing. "It shows everybody we're still No. 1." Mrs. Alicia Hoerter, a Louisville grandmother, could barely contain her excitement or her puns. "Columbia, the gem of a notion!" she exulted. "First, it's a rocket, then it's a spaceship, then it's a plane." In a packed Georgia Tech ballroom, great whoops of joy went up when John Young, class of '52, put Columbia down on the desert floor...
After watching his teammates rally from a 5-0 deficit to take an emotional, 6-5 victory in the opener. Brown tossed his seven-inning gem to improve the Crimson's EIBL record to 4-2. The overall mark stands...
Every James Worthy jumper and every Jimmy Black steal will raise the roof. Every time Dean Smith--the finest coach in the nation--shows up that scofflaw Bobby Knight of Indiana with a strategic gem, the portraits of former Heels Bobby Jones and Mitch Kupchak and Phil Ford and Walter Davis will rattle on the walls...
...General Manager Hank Peters: "Not in my judgment. I don't think any athlete in any team sport can be important enough to command that kind of money." But Winfield had a ready retort: "Everything has a market value. How do you set a price on a precious gem...