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...flight, what Boisjoly described as black soot "just like coal" was found behind a primary ring in one booster, indicating that gases had blown past the first ring. Although erosion had also been found after flights in warmer temperatures, 51-C had been exposed to overnight lows in the 20s and had more extensive ring damage. Boisjoly knew that lower temperatures reduced the resiliency and hardness of the rings. At 29 degrees , the anticipated temperature of the O rings the next morning, he feared that getting the rings to seal gaps in the joints might be like "trying to shove...
...Thomas ("Fats") Waller and Lester Young, and he has a nice eye for after-hours vignettes. With the artful help of Collaborator Albert Murray (Stomping the Blues), he turns his early memories into a historically valuable account of the itinerant, raffish life of the black musician in the '20s and '30s. The Jim Crow working conditions provoke little bitterness. All he wanted, says the Count, was "to play music and have a ball." Basie and Murray get that spirit into their book, and now it is the reader who has the ball...
...latest developments focused once again on the unusually frigid Florida temperatures, which had fallen to the mid-20s, accompanied by 35-m.p.h. gusts for hours before Challenger was launched, and on the right booster, which had clearly failed. Less than half a second after booster ignition, just as the shuttle began to lift, first a white and then a black puff of smoke gushed from a joint between two of the 149-ft. rocket's four segments. At 59.8 seconds, high in the sky, flame burst through the booster's steel casing, apparently at the same aft joint. In another...
Those youngsters who shun alcohol, cigarettes and drugs through their early 20s tend to be law-abiding, self-sufficient and ambitious. They also like school and feel valued by their peers, teachers and other people...
...total, the cagers have had five half-shooting performances in the 20s, 10 in the 30s, 18 in the 40s, six in the 50s, and one in the 70s (against Brandeis in an 81-58 rout). Harvard is shooting 42 percent from the field this year, well below the 52.3 percent last year's Crimson averaged...