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"The Intensest Rendezvous: George Herbert and the Problems of Religious Poetry" won third place and $150 for Jonathan D. Culler '66 of Kirkland House and Hamden, Conn.
Before the big home-town parade through the crowded streets of Wapakoneta, Ohio, somebody asked the local hero, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, 35, just how nervous he really was when Gemini 8 began its wild yawing and rolling last month during the Agena rendezvous. Replied Armstrong, with rueful pertinence: "It wasn...
Eventually, dazedly, he makes his way to the searchers' rendezvous. There, in a disused outhouse the python plops down to crush him-and inadvertently knocks from the eaves a shoe box containing 10,000 long-abandoned dollars. The hunt completed, the python slain, the treasure delivered to its rightful...
What made the pews even more difficult to believe was that the day had begun with almost letter-perfect precision. And now, after the flawless twin launch of the Agena target vehicle and the Gemini, after making space rendezvous seem almost routine, and after the first successful docking of two...
A Steely Embrace. That dark news shadowed a day that had actually seen a considerable technical triumph. The most important part of the flight was the docking maneuver, and Armstrong and Scott were still in their first orbit when they began the complicated exercise in space navigation. By 4:21...