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While a sellout throng of 80,010 cheered the Miami Dolphins to a 20-14 victory over the Cleveland Browns in Miami's Orange Bowl last week, hundreds of other fans were enjoying the game on color TV in the ten-story Marriott Motel just two miles from the stadium. The motel management had evaded the National Football League's TV blackout in cities where games are being played by erecting a high-sensitivity parabolic antenna that picked up the telecast of the Dolphin game from a TV station in Fort Myers, 149 miles away. Taking advantage...
Shortly before Apollo 17 was to have been launched, many spectators were startled by a burst of flame that seemed to come prematurely from the base of the rocket. The countdown clocks suddenly stopped only 30 seconds before the scheduled liftoff. To the disappointment of the throng at the cape and the millions more watching over television, Launch Control announced curtly: "We have had a cut-off." Never before during the Apollo program had a countdown been halted so close to blast-off time...
...around 10:30 a.m. yesterday, police ordered a throng of 1000 students to have the area of the administration building...
When the smoke from the fighting at the ballot boxes had cleared, a quietly jubilant Pell stopped in front of a throng of a thousand supporters and well-wishers to announce he had just received the concession of John Chafee. Pell had won by over 32,000 votes, more than enough to offset any absentee ballot surge from Chafee...
...depicted her husband mouthing the words: "Isolation Now. Isolation Tomorrow. Isolation Forever." Darting through the throng, Eleanor drew herself up in front of the youth and asked him where he had got the poster. "I made it myself," he announced proudly, having no idea who she was. "Well, it's inaccurate," snapped Eleanor. "He only wants to cut defense waste." Pulling a scrap of paper from her shoulder bag, she asked for the boy's name and address and promised to send him some explanatory literature about McGovern's stance on the issues...