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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kopecki at 123, moving Howie Henjyoji to 130 in place of Bing Sung. Gilmore will start at 137, Phil Emmi or Howie Durfee at 145, Ed Franquemont at 152, Paul Padlak at 160, Dave Worcester at 167, Jep Grant at 177, Bill Malugen at 191, and Chace at heavy weight. Sung, Durfee, and Worcester are all seniors...
...announcement from the Soviet Union was characteristically terse. Two dogs had been blasted into orbit aboard the spaceship Cosmos 110 "to conduct biological tests." Beyond that the Russians said practically nothing. The intended length of the trip, the breed and sex of the dogs, the size and weight of the spacecraft, whether the experiment was concerned directly with travel to the moon or with lengthy earth orbit, whether an attempt would be made to bring the dogs back-all such matters remained a secret. Clearly the Russians were putting on the dogs to steal headlines from the Saturn IB launch...
...take it nearly so far north and south. This might have been an attempt to avoid the hazards of an emergency landing in remote snowbound areas. The 51° angle, however, was also close to the angle that Russian moon shots have followed while in earth orbit, lending weight to the premise that Veterok and Ugolyok may be the immediate predecessors of the moon dogs the Russians have said they intend to send into lunar orbit ahead...
Harvard's sophomores continued to show progress in the weight and shot put. Ron Wilson won the weight with a 63-6 heave as Harvard swept the first three places. Carter Lord won the shot at 49-6 1/4 over Brown's Bruce Ross and teammate Tom Choquette...
King & Queen. Dejected, Rubinstein returned to Europe, and for the next four years he missed as many meals as he did notes. Nothing seemed to go right. He tried suicide, but the frazzled belt he used snapped under his weight. "The American critics were right," he admits. "In those days I dropped maybe 30% of the notes. My difficulty was that I had so much vitality and dash that I could get away with murder in Europe. But in America they felt that because they paid their money they were entitled to hear all the notes...