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...space scientists, the crucial question is what happened to Kovalyonok's heart-and the rest of his body-during his long stay in space. Sixteen teams of cosmonauts-including a Cuban, a Rumanian and other East bloc visitors-had docked with Salyut since September 1977, and all proclaimed themselves hale and hearty upon return. But if there was one major lesson from Salyut for both the Soviets and NASA, it is that, during extended spaceflights, the human body may be the most delicate machine...
...Sixteen teams go to the NCAAs, and we're one of them," said an awestruck Pompan at the match...
...society except that which makes roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer." By this point in his life, 1959. Behan had mellowed considerably, the former impassioned rebel who, twenty years earlier-as a sixteen-year old member of the Irish Republican Army-was arrested in Liverpool for the possession of explosives, had long dispensed with his plans for blowing up British battleships. Instead of violent action, he turned to art to express his beliefs...
...Sixteen Tufts batters strode to the plate in the fateful second inning of yesterday's-baseball game. Five of them walked. Two reached base on errors. An additional half dozen singled, and three, of course, made outs...
...question was almost unthinkable. Sixteen months ago, as Britain rocked with revelations that Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen's own art curator, had been a Soviet agent, Writer Chapman Pincher, dean of Fleet Street's spy watchers, pondered in the Daily Express: "Was M15 Chief Hollis linked with the KGB?" Nobody pressed for an answer, and no wonder. Sir Roger Hollis had spent nine cold-war years as D.G., or director general of M15, Britain's counterintelligence service, a civil servant so umbrous that his name was never publicly mentioned. After his retirement in 1965 Hollis...