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...rookie commander, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Gennady Sarafanov, 32, and his engineer sidekick, Colonel Lev Demin, 48, the first grandfather in space, simply were unable to hitch up with their target. Whatever the cause, the shortened flight was an embarrassment to the Russians, who had advertised it as another warmup for next year's Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous. It was also a disappointment to American officials, who worry that Soviet space technology might not be up to the joint mission. Moreover, financially-strapped NASA now will find it more difficult to convince Congress that it needs more funds for space...
This was painfully evident when Harvard was pulverized in a pre-Henley warmup race at Nottingham by some English lightweight crews...
...Another Warmup...
...race goes that way then it will be a disaster for MIT. Harvard should win by open water in any case with Princeton a distant third. Merely another warmup before the meeting with Wisconsin...
...white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy Jr., in a blazer, escorted his aunt Lee Radziwill, in black and gold striped lame, to a ringside seat after exchanging gentle warmup jabs with the fighter in his dressing room. Then he snapped the action with his Nikon. And after Ali had shrewdly outpointed Frazier in twelve rounds, he gave John a unique trophy: his bloodstained trunks...