Word: bowes
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NASA's unsurprising name for the second test of its Space Transportation System is S.T.S.-2. Columbia will be piloted by a new crew, Air Force Colonel Joe H. Engle, 49, the lean, affable mission commander who likes to hunt bear with bow and arrow, and Navy Captain Richard H. Truly, 43. Both are veteran pilots who began training as astronauts in the 1960s but who only now will be making orbital flights. The shuttle will be packed with more fuel and equipment than it was last April, including seven experiments, and it is slated to stay aloft...
...when Substitute Bobby Brown botched a play. (The lineup card was dusted for Steinbrenner's prints.) When this outlandish, delightful, 31-hr., ten-pitcher, 8-7 game was through, there was only one untainted hero: Dodger Jay Johnstone. He slammed a pinch homer in the sixth, took a bow and sat down. The Series was even...
...Bow your head with great respect...
There is something enormously appealing about these exercises. They elicit the same awe and pleasure as the discovery of NINA's in a Hirschfeld cartoon, or the realization that Bow and Arrow Streets in Cambridge describe the shapes they form. There's nothing to solve in Inversions--no clues to disentangle or mazes to penetrate. The satisfaction of Kim's "inversions" comes from finding new significance and new wit in the seemingly commonplace...
...that is the surprising part. It would have been so easy for the yuk-meisters of Bow St. to botch this up. The magazine that bears the group's name, that semi-monthly, pseudo-intellectual, masturbatory, unfunny, sub-collegiate journal, gives even sign that the Poonies would use People as a vehicle to make fun of the folks who can't understand the subtle humor of their magazine. But they didn't do that. Rather, they accepted People--and People's people, subjects and readers alike--on their own terms and emerged triumphantly...