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...Outfit. If the rakehell wants a drink after the legal 1:30 a.m. closing time, he need only walk over to the Variety Lounge on Broadway and knock on the door marked "Family Entrance." There, at 3:30 on a recent morning, a two-man band was in full swing, and 50 people kept two bartenders in constant motion. Gambling? In East Chicago, there are poker games almost any night upstairs over the Nu-Oriental Restaurant, and poker, pinball and betting on the horses at Forsythe Billiards. For a full Baedeker tour of the county's delights, the visiting...
...caught the Harvard defense napping in the third period and erupted for five goals within a space of four and a half minutes. Harvard at the time held a 3-1 lead and enjoyed a two-man advantage over Cornell...
That ominous message from the two-man spaceship Gemini 8 alarmed a nation grown accustomed to uninterrupted space success. Off Formosa, aboard the tracking ship Coastal Sentry tense NASA technicians followed the approaching capsule by radar and urgently queried Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott for additional information. In the Mission Control Center near Houston, flight controllers huddled over their consoles and studied telemetered data in a desperate effort to track down the trouble. Millions of Americans listened in startled silence as NASA's Paul Haney, his usually calm voice urgent and shaken, announced over television and radio that...
...four-man competition got under way, a U.S. sled overturned at the Zig-Zag, injuring two of the crew. At that, the wife of the next competitor in line, Lake Placid's own Joe McKillip, begged her husband: "Don't go. Please don't go." McKillip withdrew. His place was taken by Sergio Zardini, 34, an Italian who moved to Canada two years ago. Zardini was the 1963 four-man world champion, and he had won the Diamond Trophy two years in a row. Just a day before, on the same course, he had driven a two...
...disaster struck. "A red warning light suddenly went on, meaning water in the bilge," Bertram said later. "In two minutes we were swimming." Speculation was that one of Moppie's 550-h.p. diesels had pounded its way clear through her hull-nobody would ever know for sure, because she sank like a rock in 90 fathoms of water. That gave second place to Charles Gardner in Surfury-but with true British sportsmanship, he hove to, hauled Bertram and his two-man crew aboard, and abandoned the race to ferry them back to Miami...