Word: astronauts
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...SEEMS clear, given Mondale's recent attacks on the Reagan administration that he will stick to the easy marks: the policies of the Republicans and the blusterings of his colleague the astronaut. That is why a vote for Jackson, a vote for Hollings, Cranston or even Hart or McGovern, not to mention Askew, is a vote that matters in the long run. Mondale must fight for his own electorate in order to beat. The Great Communicator, for at the moment, a vote for Mondale still seems a vote for Carter. And both because it will not beat Reagan and because...
...especially for those mired in the pack of Democrats who trail far behind Front Runner Walter Mondale. But the slippage of John Glenn caused voters seeking an alternative to Mondale to take a closer look at the also-runners. A New York Times/CBS News poll showed that the former astronaut had parachuted into a tie with Jesse Jackson for second place among registered Democratic voters (each at 14%), far behind Mondale's 44%. If Glenn continues to sputter on the trail, and if Mondale fails to sew up the nomination in the first few primaries (two very...
...first glance it certainly looked like a great year for American blacks. Staring out from newsstands for much of the year were three compelling examples of how far they had come in 1983: Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America; Guion Bluford Jr., the first black American astronaut in space; and, of course, Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson...
...points. First, the impact of affirmative action programs, most initiated in the early '70s, is only beginning to be felt in this country's elite colleges and lucrative professions. Although the past 20 years have witnessed the arrival of a Black Supreme Court Justice, Black mayors, and a Black astronaut, Black representation in the medical profession has only increased by a paltry half a percentage point since 1950. White backlash in the face of such statistics seems unjustified. Furthermore, a recently released study by the National Urban League confirms beliefs that whites and Blacks have not benefitted equally from...
These new headaches demonstrated once again that the shuttle is still very much an experimental vehicle. Even so, NASA could take pride in the debut of Spacelab and the new breed of payload specialists-scientists from outside the regular astronaut corps, including one West German researcher-who managed its heavy load of 72 experiments. The space agency noted that more than 90% of the studies had been completed. If the scientific data transmitted from orbit in just a single burst were lined up as small, text-size electronic symbols, one official calculated, they would extend from the earth...