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...Alamos. What Kiwi's flaming death proved was that if nuclear rockets are ever used in space, they will not need explosive charges to break them up after they are spent. They can be turned into small and relatively harmless particles by a signal commanding them to commit suicide...
...Commit a foul? Play it loose? Try to steal the ball? Pray? Our Monday-morning quarterbacks suggest that it's advisable to avoid committing a foul, which would probably give Brown the lead and put the pressure on Harvard to score...
...COVENANT WITH DEATH, by Stephen Becker. A flavorful tale of a Mexican border state in the '20s, and the legal issue of whether a man, about to hang for a murder he did not commit, should be punished for killing the hangman...
...knew a way. Noting that most teams played their defensive backs deeper than normal against Baltimore, conceding short passes in hopes of defusing Unitas's bombs, Collier decided to take the opposite tack-position his halfbacks a step shorter than usual, crowd the Colts' receivers, make them commit themselves sooner. In the line, he made another minor adjustment, moving Tackle Jim Kanicki over "about one inch"-until he was directly opposite Baltimore's All-Pro Guard Jim Parker, key man in Unitas's defense against the blitz. The idea was to force Parker into a head...
...oddly disparate sentences were handed down by the same judge, acting under an equally odd state law based on an English statute of 1533 that made homosexuality a capital offense. As adopted in 1837, the euphemistic North Carolina law reads: "Any person who shall commit the abominable and detestable crime against nature, not to be mentioned among Christians, with either mankind or beast, shall be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall suffer death without the benefit of clergy." As it stands today, the law omits death and Christians, but prescribes a whopping sentence of up to 60 years...