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Its launching was broadcast to American radio listeners and The Times wrote

Coast Guard picket boats and even bay-crossing ferries

with cars to be shipped by steamer from San Francisco to Seattle

if too wild

had defeated Vice President Richard Nixon in one of the closest of national elections in history

High Hoops Frame Color:Black Its launching was broadcast toA construction sites scaffolding provides the backdrop, and backboard, for youngsters playing streetball at 131st Street near Fifth Avenue in New York on Aug. 8, 1991. Streetball a showy, hard nosed version of basketball has been played on city streets and public courts for decades and is credited with grooming countless collegiate and professional stars. Streetball is marked by elbows out play, a casual commitment to the rulebook and makeshift