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Then came what should have been the greatest letdown for the true believers. In 1965 Mariner 4 passed within 6,118 miles of the Martian surface and returned pictures showing what seemed to be a lifeless, cratered, moonlike planet. But even those desolate scenes failed to dissuade the diehards. In 1965 Carl Sagan-then a relatively unknown Harvard astronomer, now the best-known proponent of Martian life and a member of the Viking-lander photoanalysis team-suggested that had a Martian version of Mariner 4 passed within 6,000 miles of earth and taken 22 comparable photographs, it would have...
...themselves. The union's strike fund has run out. At a U.R.W. meeting in Chicago two weeks ago, union directors decided not even to ask for a special assessment on nonstriking members to provide some benefits for workers who might hit the bricks later at other companies. That letdown illustrates a major reason why the strike has had no impact: dissension within the union. Some 40% to 45% of the nation's tire production continues, partly because General Tire & Rubber Co. is not on strike. When U.R.W. President Peter Bommarito asked the General Tire local in Akron...
Instead, the Crimson laxmen were deflated after the near miss against Brown, and never recovered their edge. "There was a visible letdown after Brown," Harvard coach Bob Scalise said yesterday, "and we never bounced back." It showed--the Crimson looked flat and UMass played its best game of the year...
Fromholtz explained how she avoided a letdown from her stunning Evert upset. "If you play and beat a top player," she said, "you have to keep on that level and not stay in the clouds...
After last Tuesday's four quarterfinal games, which all went down to the wire, last night's semifinal games were a real letdown. Boston University and Brown promise to make up for that this evening. Score by periods Boston Univ. 4 3 1--8 Harvard...