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...craft, inexplicably failed to get out. Down from 25,000 ft., followed by Cotton's T-38, the giant bomber plummeted like a felled eagle. It smashed belly-down into the Mojave Desert, exploding into a thousand pieces. The long, proud neck was broken off and hurled 50 yds.; the heat was so fierce that much of the fuselage melted into rivulets of metal. Cross's body was found in the unblown copilot's ejection capsule...
...gosh, we're just snowed," exulted J.P.L. Project Scientist Leonard Jaffe. "We would have been happy if we had gotten just one picture." In one batch of shots, scientists found some that further emphasized Surveyor's charmed life. About 300 yds. from the craft, the camera picked out a field of boulders up to six feet in diameter. Had the spacecraft landed there, striking any stone at a bad angle, it might have toppled over. Said U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeologist Eugene Shoemaker: "I think we were damn lucky...
...missing bomb and locate where it had hit the water. Their calculations tended to confirm the story of Spanish Fisherman Francisco Simo y Orts, who had reported to skeptical task-force officials that a "stout man" swinging from a parachute had hit the water only about 75 yds. from his boat, five miles off Palomares...
...Boston Marathon is that the doctors who give each entrant a physical exam before the race never bother to check his head. Ask a competitor what makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost a decade. Last week...
...eyes outside the ball," he said. It took a few minutes of intense practice to adjust his stance-a matter of about one-half inch. Beaming broadly, he strode onto the first tee for next day's play-off and slammed his opening drive 325 yds...