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...launch window," rise to an altitude of 94 miles, and fall into the eclipse's shadow at a specific point. "Either it goes during that launch window or we pack it up and go home and wait for the next eclipse," said Edmund Reeves, shortly after supervising the hook-up of the 120-pound instrument package with the rocket at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
Second-team member Hal Smith, the "hot-dog" of the team, scored late in the game on two twirling shots and set up two more baskets on behind-the-back and hook passes through mazes of players. Another sub, Tom Backenstose grabbed a pass with a second left in the game and threw up a fade-away jump shot at the buzzer that swished the net to put the freshmen over the century mark...
...court made it clear that the Government still can prosecute young men in court for violating the regulation that requires them to keep their cards. So Gutknecht is not off the hook. And like other young men currently "delinquent" for similar reasons, he is back in the status that he held before his act of defiance. Gutknecht...
Last January, Murdoch gained control of the 6,130,000-circulation News of the World, a lurid Sunday paper, by outmaneuvering a bigger bidder, Czech-born Robert Maxwell. The deal prompted Maxwell to remark of Murdoch: "He has caught a big fish with a very small hook." Under Murdoch's direction the fish has grown even bigger, with circulation rising despite a price increase to 80 a copy. Last October, Murdoch acquired the dull but earnest daily Sun (circ.: 950,000) for a down-payment of $120,000-considerably less than he paid for his house on London...
...Brookline, Mass., Fire Department cannot rely too often on a 75-year-old musician with a 31-year-old fire engine. Still, it has taken official cognizance of the Arthur Fiedler Hook and Ladder Company. The Boston Pops conductor, a lifelong fire buff who owns several hundred fire helmets, was all ready for his first alarm after his family presented him with the venerable pump truck for his 75th birthday...