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Much of the rest of the defense is intact with J.B. DeLaney at sweeper, co-captain Dave Miller at stopper, and seniors Tom Moore and Damon Vigiano at the wingbacks. Vigiano specializes in one-on-one defense, frequently marking the opposition's most potent scorer. Michael Moore will step into the twines without any varsity experience...
...instance Greg Varney--a manistay of the Columbia offense with 11 goals last year form his center forward slot--will shift all the way back to stopper. Similarly, Barry Nix, last season's Player of the Year at sweeper, will move to the midfield, and starter Steve Pratton will migrate up front from his halfback role. Offensively, Ivy Rookie of the Year Steve Sirtis is back up front, but the coaching staff is counting on a couple of freshmen to replace Ali and Varney. Jamaican Soloman Gale and New York State High School high scorer Frank Ozello will...
...earthbound viewers, and even for scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory outside Pasadena, which masterminds Voyager's progress, the show-stopper was, once again, Saturn's rings. Better illuminated than they were during Voyager 1's flyby, they showed up in greater detail and in far greater number: literally by the thousands. Before Voyager 2's visit, scientists had a ready hypothesis to explain why the icy materials of the rings-fragments ranging in size from dust specks to boulders-follow only certain orbits and not others, leaving gaps of hundreds of miles. The gaps...
...seat amphitheater he had built for the occasion, Sheik Zayed inaugurated seven nights of revelry by joining in a saber dance. Then 50 Arab and African song-and-dance troupes paraded before the princes, emirs, sheiks and ambassadors who had been flown in on 34 private jets. The show-stopper was an Arabian singer's rendition of a specially composed wedding song, Mohammed and Salama. The sheik was moved to give the performer a bright red 1981 Mercedes, which promptly inspired an encore number, The Man with the Red Mercedes...
...real "show stopper," of course, might have been the landing. But it was breathtakingly "nominal," NASA lingo for "perfect." Crossing the coast below Big Sur at Mach 7, seven times the speed of sound, or about 5,100 m.p.h., Crippen crowed: "What a way to come to California!" Young lost his cool only after he had artfully landed Columbia right on the runway's center line. Eager to make an exit, he urged Houston to get the reception crews to speed up their "sniffing" chores-ridding the ship of noxious gases with exhausts and fans. When he was finally...