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...Cal-Tech Vice Provost David Goodstein said that a shift of funding priorities for projects in scientific institutions is hoped for. "The prevailing feeling here is a hope that the big spending in large-scale research and development will be shifted from the military to NASA and space research...
Letter carriers usually fret about dogs; now they're worried about copycats. Postal workers are afraid that mail bombings in the South, which left a federal judge and a civil rights lawyer dead, were models for two unrelated episodes last week. In Brooklyn, a booby-trapped .22-cal. sawed-off rifle, which failed to go off, was mailed in a briefcase to a federal prosecutor. In Houston a Pentecostal minister's daughter suffered burns when she opened an exploding parcel addressed to her father...
...done by Los Angeles correspondent Jonathan Beaty, a marksman and hunter who first joined the N.R.A. in the late 1950s. Beaty grew up outside Sacramento, where, he recalls, "the boys in my neighborhood could barely wait to turn twelve -- the magic age that qualified us to own a .22-cal. single-shot rifle. Taking an N.R.A. marksmanship and safety class was as much a part of the environment as Red Cross swimming lessons...
According to Stuart, the prosperous couple -- he managed a fashionable fur store, she was a lawyer -- were accosted as they left the hospital by a black man armed with a .38-cal. snub-nosed revolver. The robber, Stuart claimed, ordered him to drive to an isolated section of the racially mixed Mission Hill district, where he shot and robbed them. Police mounted an intense search for the killer in Mission Hill and the predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood. Black community leaders in Mission Hill complained that police were indiscriminately stopping and frisking 200 black men a day. With little evidence...
...Ersatz Ascendancy. From Japan came salty, rubbery surimi, a processed fish paste that appeared on countless menus under the guise of lobster and crab legs. In the interest of dietary moderation, Americans during the '80s consumed an astonishing variety of re-engineered foods and beverages, including low-cal salad dressings and lite mayonnaise, diet yogurts and calorie-skimping frozen dinners...