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...lunar expeditions. For one thing, the command ship Kitty Hawk will descend to within 11.5 miles of the moon's surface before releasing the lunar module. Cutting down on the customary 67-mile altitude will conserve some of the lander's limited fuel reserves for the riskier touchdown on the rugged terrain...
...will travel at a slightly flatter trajectory than in the past, letting Astronauts Shepard and Mitchell keep a steadier fix on their target. Although the landing will still be essentially under computer direction, Shepard will probably take over the vertical controls at an altitude of 300 ft. The actual touchdown, in a flat region between small features called Triplet and Doublet craters, should take place at 4:16 a.m. E.S.T. Friday...
There are probably only a handful of persons who remember when Blackman sent part of his first defense back into the Harvard game late in the fourth quarter when the Crimson was threatening to get its second touchdown in a 37-14 loss. The Dartmouth players who were pulled out at that moment probably do, though. And it wasn't until the Big Green had rolled up a 48-0 advantage over Columbia that the second offense got a chance to perform...
...course of play is seldom a one-way flow. Fumbles, interceptions. field goals, and the "long bomb," among other things, can punctuate the game and turn it around. The long touchdown pass (an interesting symbol of cooperation between White Quarterback and Black Wide Receiver) is both the most exciting coup de theatre in sports and a revolutionary possibility liable to explode without warning. Finally, when the charisma is flowing, even time itself can be overcome: by time-outs, running out of bounds, incomplete forward passes, etc, the clock can be made obedient to human wishes...
...being off. Just wait, Kissinger was told. By the time the squadron passed the last checkpoint, it was only a minute ahead; the raiders came down on Son Tay, guns blazing, right on the dot. Incredibly, they had not been detected by the North Vietnamese until one minute before touchdown...