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...space agency is about to double the challenge. This Saturday morning, Astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma are scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy atop a Saturn 1B rocket for the start of a bold new mission aboard the $293 million space station-a record-breaking flight of 59 days that will be the most rigorous test yet of man's ability to withstand the physical and psychological strains of prolonged space travel...
...historically unprecedented embargo against friendly nations infuriated European and Japanese customers, who charge that the U.S. has reneged on its long-term export contracts. The Japanese were particularly irked because U.S. officials have prodded them relentlessly to Buy American. Japan needs soybeans-they are used for soy sauce, bean curd and other foods-and buys almost all of them from the U.S. Last year Europe's Common Market nations also bought $800 million worth of American soybeans and soy products...
Noting a decline in drug usage among students, Johnson said there was a definite increase in beer consumption, which he has bean supporting partly through the dean's fund...
...decision came on the heels of a big first inning for the jox when they exploded for two runs off Crimson moundswoman Dale Russakoffski. But in the bottom of the second, the Crimson batmen found Administration pitcher Dan Steiner, L.L. Bean '58, tiring, and nailed him for a dozen scores...
Whether there is racial discrimination in Bermuda is debated often in Hamilton, but usually out of earshot of tourists. At the Hoppin' John Restaurant and Bar, where tourists often debate nothing more substantial than whether to order the Portuguese bean soup or the Bermuda fish chowder (both $1.25), locals at the bar try to convince themselves and others that Bermuda is completely tranquil. One white businessman, somewhat loose with liquor, tells a black employee that "for the last ten years the white man has bent over backwards to make Bermuda, black and white, work...