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Hannah, 60, a wealthy Houston land developer and space buff, had failed on his first try: a year ago, near the same Matagorda launching pad, SSI's inaugural rocket, built for $1.2 million by a young self-taught engineer, blew up during a test of its liquid-fuel engine. Chastened, Hannah got serious. He hired an experienced California contractor who had built 22 rockets for the Government, got a solid-fuel Minuteman motor from the National Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration (cost: $365,000), and hired Slayton and seven other full-time employees to help...
Actresses used to publish breathy memoirs; today they write about deep-breathing exercises. Victoria Principal, who plays J.R. Ewing's saintly sister-in-law on Dallas, has been a fitness buff for years. "In my publicity photos they used to airbrush the muscles out of my arms," says Principal, who jogs up a mountain three times a week. Now she has her revenge: The Body Principal is soon to hit the bookstores, where it will join the dozens of other glossy guides like Jane Fonda's ? on weight lifting and weight reducing, on holistic medicine and pregnancy therapy...
...sure. Jerome Wiesner, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and sometime presidential science adviser, suggests that no amount of computer training will enable U.S. generals to prevent Europe from being turned into a big lake" if there is a nuclear war on that continent. One young computer buff who recently used Janus found the experience extremely unsettling: 'It's all so coldblooded. I felt like I was looking into a coffin...
...TRON could be one of the five or six biggest films of the summer, grossing $30 million to $50 million," says James, a lifelong movie buff with a philosophy degree from Yale and an M.B.A. from Harvard. "But that matters less than that it won't be the blockbuster they counted on. The expectations of the investment community just weren't in line with the reality of the film." James believes that the high price of Disney stock (15 times its earnings, more than double the ratio of the much faster-growing Warner Communications) had caused potential buyers...
...story begins in Boston, nearly 60 years ago, with a high school girl. "I took all sorts of jobs to earn money," she remembers. "I was asked to pose for a statue of Spring, for a fountain." The lass obliged, in the buff. "It was lovely, beautiful. I had the perfect figure for it," she says. The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life, is Bette Davis, 74, and she is playing Alice Vanderbilt, the imperious matriarch of that gilded clan in Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last...