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Dallas/Fort Worth is one of about 100 U.S. airports with a special array of anemometers to detect dangerous swirling winds near ground level. Investigators will be trying to determine what the sensors recorded just before Flight 191 made its approach, and if the readings were ominous, why the pilot was not warned. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Jerome Chandler and David S. Jackson/Dallas
...manned space, an engine was shut down in flight. But as the craft hobbled bravely heavenward, mission control decided that the seven crew members should proceed with the flight at a stunted orbit of 197 miles above earth (the planned orbit was 242 miles). Challenger carried a $73 million array of sophisticated astronomical and scientific instruments, and researchers hoped that a series of 14 experiments, some painstakingly calculated for the higher orbit, would still work...
Nowhere but on radio could this mix of fast-fact glibness and folksy sentiment be so engaging. While Garrison Keillor entertains listeners with tales of his mythical Minnesota town, residents of real Lake Wobegons and metropolises across the country are happily cuddling up with a new array of nationwide radio personalities. These voices from the darkness offer advice, information, news and chat with the sort of one-on-one intimacy that slick, impersonal television cannot approach. "Radio personalities are not stars but friends," says Sally Jessy Raphael, whose friends include nearly 2 million weekly listeners to her weeknight radio advice...
...help. As NASA engineers took care of the nuts and bolts of the flight from Texas, a team of 160 flight specialists in the sleepy town of Oberpfaffenhofen, 15 miles southwest of Munich, oversaw the German D-1 Spacelab, stuffed into Challenger's cargo bay and carrying an elaborate array of 76 scientific experiments. Said a proud Hubertus Wanke, head of mission operations at Oberpfaffenhofen: "It's all similar to Houston, but in upper Bavaria...
FitzGerald and Thatcher faced a formidable array of opposition, ranging from the Irish Republican Army and its political wing, Sinn Fein, to many Protestant political leaders and militants in paramilitary organizations like the Ulster Defense Association. Neither government had any illusion that the agreement would have much impact right away. Explained an Irish official: "The real purpose of this exercise is to detach the northern [Catholic] community from the clutches of the I.R.A. We know that won't happen in six weeks. If it happens in a year, it will be a bloody miracle...