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...still be waiting. After all, the Astros only hit 70 home runs last year, and in the new ballpark it was all they could do just to get the ball out of the infield. Finally, in the eighth inning, Hofheinz gave up, growled an order-and the giant Scoreboard did its home-run trick. Lights flashed, skyrockets soared, gongs sounded, whistles shrieked, bells rang. Two cowboys appeared on the huge screen, firing six-guns, followed by a steer with a U.S. flag on one horn and the Lone Star on the other. Hofheinz sighed happily. "Nobody can ever see this...
...Cazzie Russell, the Wolverines jumped into a seven-point lead. U.C.L.A.'s answer was a full-court press, and the sound from then on was the pitter-patter of quick feet. Six times Michigan lost the ball just trying to get it in bounds. At halftime, the Scoreboard read U.C.L.A. 47, Michigan 34. Then the smallest Bruin of them all took charge...
Signals & Flips. "A word of explanation," began Assistant Conductor Edward Murphy, as workmen lowered a basketball Scoreboard over his head. In playing the score, he explained, the opposed conductors (Murphy and De Carvalho) would choose a "tactic" or a combination of two "tactics." They would then pass their choice on to the musicians by means of hand signals, and to a scorekeeper by the flip of numbered switches on a little box. The scorekeeper used a chart prepared by the composer with the help of a computer that supposedly showed which tactic had triumphed...
...basketball Scoreboard? To let the audience follow the match. And, oh yes, remembered Murphy: a "tactic" referred to the instruments used and what they were to do. Each tactic lasted at least 15 seconds. Tactic 2, for instance, was all percussion, while in Tactic 3 the string players struck the backs of their violins, cellos and violas with their hands...
...very start of the season, was no question that this was to be one of Harvard's better freshman squash squads. The team started by drubbing Andover, the nation's interscholastic team, 5-2. Then followed six successive shutouts before got on the scoreboard...