Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dartmouth will take Soldiers Field today with a 0-3-1 record overall and an 0-2 mark in the Ivy League. Last year's Ivy champions have fallen a long way in short time as last year's Big Green squad suprised everyone with a 6-1 record...
...think we'll beat them just the same," Eichner said. "We should take at least one and two. As for Princeton, they're just a couple of aging seniors who aren't running very well...
...this is little indication of the truly morbid turn the novel will take as the narrator's investigation carries him further and further into the recesses of the subterranean hospital. During his quest he encounters a veritable circus sideshow of diseased cripples and sexual freaks: the building's assistant director, a character called- "the horse," who cured his impotence through an operation turning him into a kind of centaur; the secretary who was born a test-tube baby, and so lacks any sense of human relationships; & couple who determined to safeguard their marriage by subjecting every conversation...
...opening sermon of this convocation of the order of science fiction fans will be delivered by Brother Bova. Take it away...
Barring our premature destruction, we're going out into space, says Bova. It may take a while--politicians have these tar pits they call committees--but industry will want raw materials and the military nice spots to place their nuclear weapons. Power and the profits will be their motivations, not scientific curiosity or the thrill and the strangeness of space. They won't "come in peace for all mankind." But a few--like Kinsman--may. The game will be played; we might as well start rooting for the good guys