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Paper Fender. At the start of their second moon walk, the astronauts headed straight for the damaged rover. Displaying a little old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity. Mission Control had advised them to tape together four lunar maps made of stiff photographic paper and attach the resulting 15-by 20-in. rectangle to the damaged fender with clamps taken from Challenger's interior light fixtures. The scheme worked. Indeed, the paper fender was so effective that it shielded the astronauts from dust even when Cernan opened the rover's throttle to more than 7 m.p.h. on the way to South...
...past few years, the look of vestments used in Christian ritual has changed. Chief reason is the democratization of the Catholic Church. Vestments once had a hierarchic purpose: the presence of the priest at a raised altar, draped in a chasuble thick with gold and silver embroidery, stiff and heavy as oxhide, glittering in the taper light, symbolized the spiritual distance between God's minister and his people. Costume is a basic way of preserving differences. Moreover, since the priest stood between the faithful and the altar, mostly with his back to the congregation, his full height...
...heavies, rowing downstream in a stiff current, clocked an amazingly fast time of 5:17, 41 seconds better than their winning time of last year, 5:58. Second place Cambridge was back by five seconds at 5:22, followed closely by Oxford with 5:24. The two Egyptian crews and last place Yale finished well back of the leaders...
...there is one thing on which most medical men agree: that the U.S. is paying a stiff price for its eating habits. Though debate still goes on over the precise role which diet plays in several diseases, doctors have reached a consensus that it is a major factor in several serious ailments. Specifically...
...Wednesday night, the Crimson will travel to Boston University to face the Terriers in what should prove to be another relatively easy contest. Harrison said last week that B.U. "has some talent but should not really be in our class." Harvard will probably get its next stiff test when they play the University of Massachusetts next Saturday night...