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SEVERAL DECADES BACK IN TIME, at the other end of the binary-star research chain, Sergei Gaposchkin preserves the older world of Astronomy in his 6' by 8' cubicle under the Great Refractor a 15-inch telescope installed...
...question that the President's effusive praise for Kissinger is sincerely meant. Privately, Ford has assured him that he wants him to stay on-for at least the rest of his term. Says a top presidential aide: "The President is absolutely adamant. He is not retreating one inch in his support of Kissinger. As far as he is concerned, there is no footsy going...
Junior Dan Waldman lost a heart-breaker to Dressler at third singles, 6-2, 7-6. "I had two set points in the second set," he said. "But I missed the line on both by a quarter of an inch." Dressler won the second set on a single-game tie breaker after dominating the initial set with an overpowering serve...
...ENORMOUS as one supposed ... Haystack Calhoun, the ever-popular 601-pounder from Four Corners, Arkansas, may be able to break four inch thick planks with his "Big Splash" submission hold, but he is no match for Johnny Alee, the 1132 pound man who fell through the floor of his North Carolina log cabin one hundred years ago. Nor can he compare to El Topicon, the Brazilian wrestler who is reputed to weigh an incredible fifteen hundred pounds, who is so enormous that he can engulf a two hundred pound opponent in his rolls...
...victory improved the Crimson record to 5-2, against 4-9 for all of last season. Harvard faces its most formidable foe of the season next Wednesday when second-ranked Cornell rolls into Cambridge looking to inch closer to its sixth Ivy League title in seven years...