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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...
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...
Unlike sprints, where boats line up bow to bow and race for 2000 meters along a straight course with the first one across the finish line declared the winner, boats in each event in the Head start at ten-second intervals and race 5000 meters (about three miles) upstream from the down-stream edge of the Boston University boat house (in the Charles River Basin) to a point in the Metropolitan District Commission park near the Ramada Inn. Keeping track of the times and comparing them, a computer can then show who won the particular event...
Each boat is assigned a number. That number is displayed prominently on the bow of the boat and the back of the man in the bow seat. To tell how any one boat is doing relative to the others, just look at that boat's number and compare it to the numbers of the boats to the bow and the stern in front and behind of that boat, keeping in mind that if crew number 27 is ahead of crews number 26, 25, and 24, it is doing well with respect to the other three...