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...Sweet Words." To watching Americans, the flight began uneventfully. Sitting in the control center at Cape Canaveral, Gus Grissom, handling the ground-to-space communication, told Carpenter that Aurora 7 was in a near-perfect orbit. "Sweet words," replied Carpenter. "I have the moon in the center of the window, and the booster is off to the right slightly." During his flight, Carpenter was supposed to complete several experiments that Glenn had been unable to carry out because of attitude-control system problems. He was scheduled to photograph cloud formations, test for the polarization of sunlight, look for comets close...
Yellow Fever. Vaccine is already near-perfect...
Before closing the site in early September, the researchers had extracted the near-perfect skeleton of the mammoth, and bones of an elk, a deer, a wolf, and a huge pre-historic bison from the muck. Of even more significance than the spectacular mammoth bones, parts of stone knives were found which give indications that the mammoth was killed by manlike beings more than 12,000 years ago. The artifacts are among the earliest remains of man found in the Rocky Mountain region...
...save performance by B.U.'s Barry Urbanski was the key to the Terrier's impressive showing. Urbanski blocked several near-perfect shots, and forced the Crimson to score all three goals from just in front of the cage. Nevertheless, Harvard's Bobby Bland made the save of the evening, stopping a solo by B.U. wing Dick Fogerty at 6:55 of the third period. Fogerty picked up a loose puck in the center zone after a teammate had blocked a shot made by a Crimson defenseman, raced into the Harvard zone, and fired a medium high, hard shot from about...
Incredible depth and near-perfect covering on the Eagle's two or three excellent players were the keys to the Crimson win. Harvard scored first as an overflow crowd saw Dave Johnson blast the puck in from left defense, and before the B.C. first line's clockwork produced any effect, the third period was a quarter over and the Crimson four goals ahead...