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...have been vanquished at the Stadium, but we certainly shone in Sanders...
...from driftwood, and aims his homemade telescope toward the sky. He has come to consider the stars old, familiar friends. It was only a month ago that he focused on the constellation Hydra, near whose tail he had spotted his first comet. Suddenly he spotted an unfamiliar glow. "It shone," says Ikeya, "like a street lamp on a misty night." All his checks confirmed what he could hardly believe: he had found another comet...
...ship was a space scientist's dream laboratory-crammed to capacity. Its four panel blades shone purple from the thin sapphire-glass coating that protects their 28,224 tiny solar cells from radiation damage. Its silvery octagonal body, made of magnesium and aluminum alloy, carried 138,000 components, including 31,696 delicate electronic components ranging from a computer to a small, lO½-watt radio transmitter. It was programmed and equipped to send to Earth a continuous stream of reports on 39 scientific and 90 engineering measurements. Crowded into the spacecraft were a new type of helium gas magnetometer...
Rarely have the experts been so wrong. The only thing that remotely resembled a crash was a brief encounter between Bud Tingelstad's Lola-Ford and the wall on No. 3 turn. The yellow caution light shone for only 13 min. during the 31-hr. race- and 2 min. of that was the fault of a careless official who pulled the switch by mistake. Rookies finished third, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth. Seven top cars used Firestone tires, and the first four were powered by rear-mounted Ford engines. Offy Boss Louis Meyer then announced that his firm...
...Shall Overcome,'" when "a car pulled up beside us and shot into the car two or three times." When the car came to a stop down the road, Moton shut off the ignition, turned off the lights and waited for five minutes. Soon "a car came back," shone its lights at the Liuzzo car, then drove off. When Moton tried to stop a passing car, he was nearly run over, so he "went back to the car and passed out for about 25 or 30 minutes...