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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canceled Space Walk. Spider's return to Gumdrop was the highlight of the mission, which began last week after a three-day delay to allow the astronauts to recover from troublesome colds. Launched by a Saturn 5 rocket into a near-perfect orbit, Gumdrop, in flawless sequence, separated from the third-stage S-4B rocket, pivoted in space, hooked up with Spider and plucked it out of the nose of the orbiting S-4B. On the third day, Astronauts McDivitt and Schweickart got ready to enter Spider through the 47-in.-long, 32-in.-diameter connecting tunnel...
...House tournament is the highlight of the winter sport season for a great many Harvard sports fans, who still throng the IAB for the final bouts. And though Henry Lamar insists that intercollegiate boxing is dead and buried, who's to deny that if Harvard challenged Yale to an annual match, the Ivy League might generate a pugilistic renaissance in America...
...PROGRAM is short, ending around ten, and the fourth movement--air--is less than ten minutes long. But it is the show's highlight. A cross-stage projection of red and blue light allows the two dancers--Miss Crouse and Miss Hurst--to use the depth of the stage in an extraordinary way. They move their faces and bodies in and out of the light, being and not being. This movement's score consists of music from the other three movements, recorded in an echo chamber, wailing back and forth across the stage like the turning of the spheres...
...freshman meet, if somewhat less important, was definitely more exciting, as the Yardlings edged Andover Academy, 48-47. Dan Kobick's victory in the backstroke was the highlight for Harvard, enabling the Crimson to tie and subsequently go ahead. Kobick's time to 55.2 set a new Harvard freshman record, breaking by 0.7 seconds the standard he set earlier this season...
Record - setting performances in at least three events should highlight the two-day Greater Boston Colleges indoor track meet which gets underway in Harvard's "bubble" tonight. The Crimson thinclads are heavily favored to retain the team championship over six area rivals...