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Surveyor program, which now has successfully soft-landed four out of the six spacecraft sent moonward. This remarkable average-as improbable as a pitcher tossing four no-hit games in six starts-is perhaps the greatest technological feat in the first decade of the space age. Russian space scientists have parachuted an instrument package onto Venus, but have yet to develop the approach radar and rocketry system that can set an unmanned spacecraft down on the airless moons as gently as a helicopter touches down on a landing strip...
...Crimson attack stole the show from Northeastern's heralded chucker, Ed "No-Hit" McCarty. Led by Bill Cobb's four hits and two apiece from Jeff Hall and captain Joe O'Donnell, Harvard put together its mightiest offensive of the spring. Three N.U. hurlers were sent to the showers by the Crimson's 13-hit barrage...
Unfortunately, the Crimson batters seem to be putting on a no-hit performance of their own. They managed only three hits against Tufts' Ron McRobbie, for a grand total of six in the last two games...
John V. Lindsay pitches nine no-hit innings and homers three times as the New York Mets beat Los Angeles...
...player, Branch Rickey's contribution to baseball is best forgotten. A no-hit, no-field catcher, he bounced briefly around the majors reaching a sort of apex with the New York Highlanders in 1907, when he batted .182 and permitted the Washington Senators to steal 13 bases in one game. That was enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator...