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Twenty years ago, Andretti finished third, Johncock fifth and Al Unser ninth in their first Indy, when a bumper haul of eleven rookies made the field of 33 and five finished in the top ten. "An eternity ago," says Andretti, 45, a compact man with a Roman bearing. "It doesn't seem that long" to Unser, 45, who at first professed to understand Johncock's decision. "No, that's not fair," he amended. "I don't understand it. I haven't done it." This is the usual difficulty in discussing anything about auto racing. No one who hasn't done...
Selected by a vote of the seven league head coaches, the nine Harvard players were part of an 11-4 Crimson squad that won its fifth consecutive Ivy League title and concluded its season ranked ninth nationally...
...next evening TIME was cited for its achievements in photojournalism. For the ninth time in ten years, a photographer on assignment for TIME won the O.P.C.'s esteemed Robert Capa Gold Medal "for best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise." For the second year in a row, the winner was James Nachtwey. Said Nachtwey, who is on assignment in Nicaragua, in a prepared statement read for him: "Everyone with whom I have gone into the field owns a piece of this award...
...death star theory, he thinks that his Planet X theory of periodic comet showers has greater potential. For one thing, a still undiscovered planet has a distinct advantage over Nemesis as a promising candidate because astronomers have been predicting its existence since the late 19th century, first as the ninth planet and then as the tenth. Reason: its existence and gravitational pull might explain discrepancies in the movements of Neptune and Uranus. Even the discovery of Pluto in 1930 did not fulfill the gravitational force needed to justify Uranus' meanderings, and some astronomers have long thought that a tenth planet...
...Harvard golfer, Pat Kenary, has repeatedly turned in strong performances. The freshman came in ninth at the NCAA Division I qualifiers held recently in Patowomat...