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Coach Norm Shepard's team, with a season total of 18-4, sports impressive wins over Army and Navy. Barely nosed out of the EIBL crown, the Crimson brought home the Greater Boston League championship...
...Coach Shepard has not yet chosen his starting pitcher, but it will be either Dick Garibaldi (5-1) or Del Rossi (9-1). Al Yarbro (4-1), Bill Humenek; and Dick Sargent will be ready in the bullpen. Del Rossi had a low ERA of 1.44, and a total of 60 strikeouts with only 26 walks in the 75 innings pitched...
Although Yale has no standout players, Harvard coach Shepard was "impressed by the quality of the team. Their record doesn't indicate just how good they are. They are a strong team, a veteran team, and they have two excellent pitchers in junior Bob Kelley, a rightander with a good fastball, and sophomore Chris Getman, a southpaw...
...control systems was only 45% full. Flight Director Christopher Columbus Kraft ordered Carpenter to start flying the capsule by the manual control system, which uses a separate fuel tank. As Carpenter approached California, Kraft decided that there was still enough fuel for a third orbit. But he told Astronaut Shepard at the microphone in the tracking station at Point Arguello: "We still want to emphasize to him to limit his auto fuel usage...
...Prayers. Rene wanted to share her husband's flight in the only way she knew how. Though the wives of Astronauts Shepard and Glenn had stayed away during their husbands' flights, she decided to go to Cape Canaveral last week ("The Navy brought me down, and friends gave us a house stocked with food"). She spoke to Carpenter on the phone just before liftoff, then took her children to the beach to watch the shoot. She said no prayers. "I feel the same way as Scott," she explained, referring to Carpenter's conviction that it is presumptuous...