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...Captain Boyum's tournament play followed a similar pattern, but with a twist. After winning in the first round and losing in the second, the Crimson's number two player faced teammate Edge in the consolation match--Harvard's number two against Harvard's number one for a spot in the consolation semifinals...
Mark Anders, 38, a Berkeley graduate student who works with the Alvarez team, is methodically examining rock samples from the Nova Scotia site, looking for evidence of shocked quartz--grains with their normal crystalline pattern distorted by the kind of shock wave the Manicouagan impact would have produced. If he finds the mineral clues below the fossil deposits, he says, the impact probably preceded and could have caused the extinction, thus strengthening the Alvarez hypothesis...
...been severed. In many parts of the country, private citizens spent the night after the vote protecting ballot boxes with their bodies. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, who headed a 20- member delegation of official U.S. observers at the election exercise, declared that a "very disturbing pattern of incidents" had emerged. Said he: "The count is being shaped to what the President needs...
Saturday followed the same pattern. Harvard demolished Dartmouth (7-0) and Princeton (6-1) in a repeat performance. Only a one-point loss in the fifth match by Harvard's number one player, Diana Edge, marred a perfect Crimson performance...
Still, the way the boosters continued flying after the explosion prompted some experts to reject the likelihood of a burnthrough in either one. Hurled away from the exploding external tank, both rockets appeared to be moving rather stably, producing the awesome Y-shaped pattern that millions of Americans will never forget. A burnthrough on the side of the casing, several rocket specialists say, would have sent the booster cartwheeling wildly through space. Bob Truax, a retired engineer who directed the Thor missile program in the 1950s, agrees. "After the explosion, they were continuing on a fairly normal trajectory," he says...