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Harvard will have Joe Cavanagh back in the lineup, and he'll be seeking to make up for the points he missed scoring while seeing limited action in the Brown and B. C. games. The Elis will undoubtedly accommodate him, but the going will be rougher against a Clarkson team that may have the tightest defense in the East...
Rhodes called Lawrence "a microcosm of the country, although some elements are a little rougher than in other places...
...hitch. So much debris was still floating outside the spacecraft's windows that a star sighting?to align Apollo properly for the burn?was impossible ("It looks like we're in the middle of the Milky Way," the astronauts had remarked earlier). But the spacemen neatly improvised by taking rougher fixes on the moon and the sun. Then they fired Aquarius' descent engine, increasing Apollo 13's speed by 600 m.p.h. The 4-minute, 24-second burn was so accurate that only two more small course corrections were subsequently needed...
...Bruins were rougher than usual. They tried to get Harvard riled up so that they would either be thrown out or lose their effectiveness as team members. They bruised Thomas's shin's managed to get. Bill Brock kicked out of the game, and worked hard on Gomez. Like a pro. Gomez took it, and gave it back- when the referees weren't looking...
...create his shadowy imagery. He juggled lines - etched, and engraved - according to what he drew, sometimes combining all three in one print. He worked the delicately teethed lines into the most careful description-to weave the wrinkles in a face or show the heaviness of a drapery. He employed rougher drypoint or engraved lines for bolder cuts...