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...Solution For World Hunger". To anybody with even a little knowledge about the Middle East, the title of Jonathan M. Moses's column "A Solution for Israel" (January 20), could not but seem equally absurd. To anybody who read further, the article could not but seem misguided to boot...
...failure in the booster-rocket test was unrelated to the malfunction that caused the Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, when fire burned through an O-ring that sealed the joint between two rocket sections. This time the problem was in a flexible boot ring that helps anchor the swiveling rocket nozzle to the rigid booster case. Nearly half of the ring, which is 8 in. wide, 2 in. thick and 8 ft. in diameter, broke away during the horizontal ground test; some pieces were found inside the booster. The nozzle had been deliberately shifted 7 degrees, just 1 degrees...
...boot ring had been redesigned because an earlier type had eroded on several missions. Morton Thiokol officials said a different type of nozzle joint had been tested successfully in August and could be reinstalled. "We have a parallel design, and we also have some rings of a different configuration on the shelf," said John Thomas, a NASA engineer who began examining the failure. "What we have to do is understand exactly what happened so we can clear this ring or another...
...Dollar Dry Dock, was playing on those emotions in a recent full-page newspaper ad: IF YOU WANT TO HELP YOURSELF AND CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING AMERICA'S ECONOMIC STRENGTH, CONSIDER 'SOCKING AWAY' A LITTLE MORE OF YOUR INCOME. A shrewd pitch: saving is not only savvy, but patriotic to boot...
...burst of World War II in the Pacific. Behind the camera is Jim's spiritual cousin, Steven Spielberg, 39. Spielberg's trials of the past couple of years have been nowhere so cataclysmic as those that befell Jim, his family and millions of other refugees under the imperial Japanese boot. Still, they must have injected an unwelcome dose of maturity into the man with a lock on childhood. The films produced recently under his aegis have fizzled at the box office. His TV series, Amazing Stories, limped through its two-year run. Could he ever fail? He could. Not enough...