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...Chances. Despite the inconvenience and expense-and the ever-present danger that Voyager's reliability might be impaired-NASA has no doubts about the ultimate value of its spacecraft-sterilization program. Says Associate Administrator Homer E. Newell: "Successful biological exploration of the planets is a goal that supersedes in importance any program, flight or schedule that would endanger the eventual acquisition of knowledge of extraterrestrial life...
Blindman's Buff. Man has always held the night in terror?from Homer's day, when the warriors in the Iliad besought Zeus to "deliver from darkness the sons of the Achaeans," through Biblical times, when God's direst threat was to "set darkness upon thy land," right down to the present, on those rare occasions when he encounters...
...Homer says it is a rare man who is as good as his father, and the maxim should be twice as true for grandfathers. Vic Gatto scored 15 touchdowns during his senior year at Needham, Mass. High, but he fell three shy of the school record set by his maternal grandfather...
...homer! It's a homer!" Mudcat yelled, dancing gleefully around the bases and broad jumping the last 10 ft. to the plate. Newsmen wanted to know what kind of pitch he had hit. Grant grinned. "It was the best pitch I ever saw. A curve that dropped a foot. And I hit it into the teeth of a gale...
Koufax struck out Earl Battey to end the threat-and that was as close as the Minnesota Twins got to scoring a run. The Dodgers picked up two runs in the fourth on Lou Johnson's homer, a double by Ron Fairly and a single by Wes Parker. Koufax needed only one. Relying almost exclusively on his fastball ("It got so I just told Johnny Roseboro 'no' every time he called for the curve"), he burned pitch after pitch over the corners of the plate...