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Although for budgetary reasons it opted in 1981 against launching a Halley's probe of its own, NASA nonetheless remains smack in the middle of the action. The agency plans to dedicate part of two shuttle missions, including the flight that will boost aloft Teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe, to comet- related experiments. The Solar Max satellite, brought back to life l8 months ago by a shuttle repair crew and now performing its normal duty of monitoring the sun, will examine Halley's off and on for about 60 days. Pioneer 12, in orbit around Venus, will watch Halley's when...
...Santiago was pressured by the Penn defense and had to pitch the pigskin to Connolly. No matter, though because the junior split end encountered no Quaker defenders as he held the ball aloft and sauntered five yards into the endzone...
Apparently tipped off that immigration charges against him had been secretly handed up by a federal grand jury in Portland, the Bhagwan departed forthwith from Rajneeshpuram. The guru and six disciples chartered two Learjets and took off so quickly that their pilots had to obtain final clearances while aloft. As the Bhagwan's retinue tried to arrange a flight to Bermuda, Federal Aviation Administration controllers tracked the planes. When Rajneesh's touched down at 2 a.m. at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, authorities arrested...
Lined up in punt formation, long snapper Kevin Dulsky spiralled a snap far over the head of Steinberg. The senior booter scrambled after the uncooperative pigskin, which dribbled down to the end line.CrimsonJi H. MinURQUHART holds the ball aloft after his 75-yd. run to celebrate the Tiger victory...
Details also emerged of the planning of the U.S. interception, some courtesy of a ham radio operator in Chicago who eavesdropped on one of the six conversations between President Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. At the time, the two were aloft in separate aircraft, but Weinberger's Gulfstream C-20 transport had not yet been fitted with a scrambler fully compatible with that on Air Force One. "Weinberger made the comment that it may take shots across the bow," the brother of the ham operator told reporters. "The President said, in essence, I don't care what it takes...