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...Harvard’s approximately $5 million offer will probably win the auction for the contested piece, according to Turnpike Authority spokesperson Sean O’Neil...
...Harvard came in as the highest bidder in both cases, and we are awarding the land based on the highest bid price for it, so the land’s future is pretty clear,” said O’Neil...
...lawn band. Convinced of an imminent strike, however, Weyand kept his troops close to Saigon, and officers in his camp placed bets on the timing. All wagered that the strike would start between midnight and 5 a.m. on Jan. 31, and officers bet on 15-minute intervals, according to Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie. Saigon came under fire at about...
...Neil Armstrong meant to say "That's one small step for a man," adapting the phrase from a children's playground game. Instead, because of intense radio static, Mission Control in Houston--and the rest of mankind--heard, "That's one small step for ... man, one giant leap for mankind," which became one of the most famous sentences of the 20th century. If the audio failed, the images were indelible, as a camera mounted on the base of the lunar-landing vehicle beamed back the otherworldly milestone. Ohio-born Armstrong, then 38, had become the first earthling on the moon...
Think back to July 20, 1969. If you were watching when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, you almost certainly believed that this "one small step" was the first in an imminent journey out to the planets and the stars. A year earlier, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey had portrayed a near future where Pan Am spaceships carried business travelers and vacationers to the moon. Who would have believed then that when 2001 rolled around, there would be no trips to the moon--and for that matter...