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Earlier, by starting an unusual double-play on an attempted sacrifice. Harvard catcher Joe Wark had snuffed out a Columbia rally. With runers on first and second and nobody out in the fifth, Hal Robertson bounced a best off the plate, that Wark barehanded and threw Danny Skaff at third, Skaff relayed to first for the 2-5-3 twin killing...
...Hal Plotkin...
...admirable theory, but the whole tradition of the demonic robot assumes that when a metal creature feels immortal longings, no mere law can rein him in. Arthur C. Clarke demonstrated that in 2001. The computer HAL not only operates the space ship and talks in a supercilious tenor but is so exalted by its own superiority ("I am incapable of making an error") that it starts killing the astronauts who interfere with its plans. In a 1976 MGM effort titled Demon Seed, a presumptuous robot goes even further and fulfills the sinful ambition of making Julie Christie pregnant. But then...
...Hal Clement...
...Royals notched their second run in the fourth, as Willie Mays Aikens smashed a triple and came home on a Hal McRae single. And the Phillies answered in turn as Mike Schmidt led off the fifth inning with a long home run over the left-center field fence...