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...included its first win on the road in 17 contests, over Columbia, and a hair-raising 62-60 loss to Cornell. The Crimson is the best foul shooting team in the country, with junior guard Bob Ferry (46-for-49) at number one in the land and Joe Carrabino ninth. And the Duke game is the first of seven in the next 10 days-the momentum has to start somewhere, sometime. It might as well be tonight...
That was too much for Thomas, who had 36 points and 11 assists, to overcome as the Celtics earned their ninth victory in a row and pushed their record to 38-9, the best in the National Basketball Association...
...four runs just waiting for the sun to come up." Because of a bleak December and dismal snow in Europe, the brothers came home early from the World Cup tour to Yakima for practice over Christmas. So far, their best finishes have been a third for Steve and a ninth for Phil, who says, "It's funny sometimes how quickly everything can just click in. When everything's going right, it's like a joy ride...
...conducted my own small ceremony as a child on Christmas Eve. My window faced the park, and I always waited for the caroling to start before I went downstairs, so that I could, for a few moments, look down from my ninth-floor perch and take it all in-my neighbors, the music, the tree. I think I half expected something wonderful to happen as I watched, or perhaps I dimly realized that something wonderful was already happening. On those nights, as on every Christmas Eve since they came into being, the man and wife of The Gift...
...electronic glitches that led to those fears began on Columbia 's ninth day in orbit as it circled 155 miles above the earth. The flight had already been lengthened by 24 hours to give ground scientists more experiment time. This was made possible by the shuttle's unexpectedly low use of its "consumables" (oxygen, fuel, electric power). But when Columbia, in preparation for its descent, fired the small maneuvering rockets, or thrusters, hi its nose, the jolt rocked the ship. The usually laconic Young said that it sounded like a "howitzer blast going off in your backyard...