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After the crew returns to the mother ship, the moon module Intrepid will be sent hurtling back to the moon's surface, and the Yankee Clipper will begin the return lap of its ten-day trip...
...effort to build a psychological advantage and to demoralize the other girls. East started out fast to build a 200-lap lead after the first day of the week-long contest. It was at this point that South was virtually eliminated...
North did not yield to the pressure however, and retaliated slowly but surely to thrill observers by earning a four-lap advantage Wednesday night North appeared to have the momentum and some feared that East would be overwhelmed...
There are two poems, "Letter from a Foreign City," by Verandah Porche and "Idlewild Airport" by Steve Lerner. Verandah Porche's poem is like a house. A woman lies in her man's bed writing a former lover for "some fatherly advice." She is "gentle in the lap of love," has redeemed her days, "Have peeled your life from mine/like a tangerine...
Even as the tanker was completing the final lap, the enormity of its success was overshadowed by fear of the consequences. In Canada's Parliament, legislators brought pressure on the government to declare the Northwest Passage Canadian territorial waters. Conservationists, too, were apprehensive. They warned that, because of the low annual temperatures, an oil spill in the passage would take decades, perhaps centuries, to dissipate. As for the oilmen at Humble, they were not willing to commit themselves beyond the Manhattan's return trip and another voyage next spring...