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...target and released a small lander, emblazoned with hammer and sickle. After deploying a balloon-like French-designed parachute system, the vehicle descended slowly through the atmosphere and made a soft landing. Prechilled in the coldness of space, the probe's instruments survived 53 minutes on the torrid surface-three minutes longer than the last Russian lander. They radioed a flood of data, including the first photographic image of the hidden Venusian landscape-a jumble of large jagged rocks rather than the sandy desert expected by some experts. Said Project Scientist Boris Nepoklonov: "We thought there couldn...
Meanwhile, the B team took a quick 12-0 lead over Norwich and then hung on for the victory despite a torrid Norwich rally in the second half which narrowed the final score...
...myth and the reality take on many forms. The classic case--fated to frustration, needless to say--is the lovesick student who hopes that his heart can flame forth anew after the fire of a once-torrid affair has been snuffed out in the frigid winter. As women fill the streets of Cambridge in their low-cut pastel dresses, as men walk by in their tight-fitting T-shirts, this unattached youth sighs in paralysis at the endless possibilities passing by Sadly the student pauses in the reading of Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy to dream of the distant...
Leigh Hogan will return to first base this season. Hogan, an excellent hitter with good speed, was described by Park as "probably the best first baseman that we've had since I've been here." He was named All-GBL last year and hit a torrid .579 for the month of May, finishing the season with a .368 average...
...freshman squad continued its torrid free-throw shooting, sinking 23 of 30, for 76 per cent. Like Fine, Booker also hit on all eight shots, white Smart went two-for-three. Brown, on the other hand, could manage only a .500 average, 8 of 16, accounting for a 15-point Crimson advantage...