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The Fire Department was philosophical. "We could see it was some sort of steam coming off the roof. The Harvard Square Theatre's incinerator did the same thing the other night. People said, 'Oh my heavens!' and then started calling up like mad. We learn, to absorb the complaints."
The computer is, in fact, the largely unsung hero of the thrust into space. Computers carefully checked out all Gemini's systems before the launch, kept precise track of the spacecraft's position in the heavens at every moment, plotted trajectories and issued precise commands to the astronauts...
Then the heavens burst as Howard Dale of Yale hit another jump shot and teammate Bob Trupin added two more points on a breakaway. Scenting disaster. Harvard coach Floyd Wilson switched into zone defense, but the damage was done. Harvard never was close to the lead again.
Molyneux is a curious hybrid. An Englishman whose line is Arc de Triomphe, never Marble Arch, he is the Parisian equivalent of Manhattan's Mainbocher, a classicist devoted to the soft look and tailored line. Let others raise hems to the heavens; for Molyneux, knee-length skirts are no...
A Little Sticky. Mariner had different difficulties. Just as planned, one of its bright-eyed optical sensors locked on the sun, the craft's prime navigational reference and power source for its solar cells. But when another sensor began searching the heavens for a second reference point-the giant...