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Mets' Reliever Tug McGraw, who went on to win the game, took the hill in the sixth frame but yielded a run in the seventh on a hit-batsmen, a walk, and a double to Reggie Jackson...
Behind righthander Tom Seaver, with ninth-inning relief from Tug McGraw, the Mets exploded a 2-2 deadlock with a four-run fifth inning to win the best of five game series, three...
...sighted the enemy and legitimized Feminism for them. We were 19 or 20 when the only definition of womanhood that we knew was being smashed and the rigid lines of sexual demarcation eroded, and they were just coming out of adolescence. They could feel the protest of '69 tug at the roots of the system that wouldn't budge for us in our formative years. And they could watch sexism gruelled on a vast public witness stand. All this means is that this later generation could inherit Feminism as a personal guideline, because it was established for them publicly four...
...sonar gear, a little submersible called a Cubmarine had no better luck. Just as the situation seemed hopeless, the research ship A.B. Wood arrived, equipped with a remote-controlled underwater television camera. Using the camera to guide a grappling hook, the Wood managed to snare Sea-Link; a single tug freed the sub, which rose immediately to the surface...
...astronauts toiled for more than an hour in radio silence. It was only when Skylab moved back within range of NASA'S big dish antenna in California's Mojave Desert that Mission Control learned the results. "We got the wing out and locked," reported Conrad. With a tug from the astronauts, the solar wing had swung out perpendicular to the ship and its accordion-like silicon panels were unfolding. However, hydraulic fluid in the panels' spring mechanism had stiffened in the extreme cold, and the panels only partially came out. Yet by week...