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There are no oil wells in Kaluga, no gold mines, no rich mineral deposits. In fact, until recently there was very little in this town (pop. 345,000) other than some run-down farms, a distillery that produces mediocre vodka, a big statue of a Soviet rocket-science pioneer and a war-era T-34 tank monument that still bears the inscription FOR STALIN AND THE MOTHERLAND...
...official U.S. military spokesmen, officers on the ground tell a different story. "It lasted for about seven hours after we arrived, so the enemy was pretty determined. They did not just fade away," says the MiTT team chief Major Chuck Markos, whose men were hit with flurries of rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. "It was significant." The exchanges lasted until shortly before lunch. By mid-day, the district was boarded up, bereft of traffic or life, but quiet. The next morning at about 6 a.m., hostilities started again, with several more hours of fighting before quiet finally returned...
...rotation on weekends. There’s a difference there.” Meehan, who worked the ninth in relief, singled in the fourth and Matt Rogers stroked a single in the ninth for Harvard’s only other hits besides Salsgiver’s rocket. “No excuses,” Walsh said. “They’re just a better ballclub.” —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed to be the first U.S. aircraft to carry man out to the edge of space...
...right fielder Lance Salsgiver (2-for-3, three runs), sophomore third baseman Steffan Wilson (3-for-5, two RBI), and notably, senior designated hitter Matt Brunnig (1-for-2, two RBI)—took care of the rest. Wilson did his damage in the fifth inning, shooting a rocket down the first base line for a one-out, run-scoring double.The Huskies (15-15) had caught Harvard sophomore Matt Vance trying to swipe third on the previous play, erasing the possibility of an extra run. But Brunnig knocked in Wilson with an opposite-field rope...