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...first half and the Crimson leading, 1-0, junior stopper Jeanne Piersiak made the defensive play of the game. After Judge failed to intercept a lead pass to Porell streaking down the left wing, the B.C. leading scorer rocketed an off-angle drive toward the empty Harvard net. But Piersiak, a second team All-Ivy selection, anticipated the trouble and streaked into the crease to deflect the potential score...
...Europeans called the Inter national Solar Polar Mission (ISPM). Two unmanned spacecraft were to be sent in great, looping orbits over the unexplored poles of the sun. Last week J.P.L. officials gloomily conceded that they had finally given up hope of launching a once-in-a-lifetime mission to intercept Halley's comet. This primordial chunk of matter, which returns to the sun's vicinity in early 1986 after an absence of 76 years, could provide invaluable clues to understanding our solar system's origins. Now it will be examined only by less sophisticated European, Soviet...
Picking apart the Harvard secondary with passes to Shaun Teevens and sophomore Jack Daly, the Mechanicville, N.Y., native handed the Crimson its third loss in five games and first in three league contests. The Crimson managed to intercept three of Polsinello's aerials--Peter Coppinger, Rocky Delgadillo, and Marc Mills nabbing one each--but the sophomore continued to hit his receivers on sideline patterns...
...created by the powerful pull of Saturn's gravity. NASA's new boss, James Beggs, hailed the flight as "one of the really great scientific achievements of our age." But he refused to commit the Reagan Administration to any new space endeavors, not even a mission to intercept Halley's comet on its reappearance in 1986 for the first time in 76 years...
Hunt disarmingly assured him that his conviction was not for burglary but merely for conspiracy to intercept telephone conversations. The Florida cabinet decided to show him clemency, and the Hunting license was granted...