Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...college graduate named Alec Wilkinson applied for a job with the police department of Wellfleet, Mass., a popular vacation retreat on Cape Cod. His main qualification for the post was a familiarity with the area; he had summered there regularly as a child, and his parents had since joined the 2,000 or so people who weathered Wellfleet all year long. On the other hand, he possessed a slight physique and no knowledge at all about law enforcement. He had majored in music at Bennington. "Music, Huh?" the chief said during the job interview. "That...
...underscore that message, NASA barely let the dust settle from Columbia's landing before dispatching its second ship, Challenger, to Cape Canaveral. Hitchhiking atop a specially adapted Boeing 747, the new or biter passed low over the reviewing stand at California's Edwards Air Force Base while a military band played God Bless America. Reagan likened the conclusion of the shuttle test program to the driving of the golden spike that marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad...
...CAPE CANAVERAL., Ha-The shuttle Columbia testing a fuel saving maneuver 186 miles above Earth, experienced "unexplained torque" yesterday that caused a series of harmless pitch and roll movements. The phenomenon went away as mysteriously as it began and officials were curious but not worried...
Faster than a hungry agent! More identifiable in cape than collar! Now able to deliver long sermons in a single breath! Look! Up in the pulpit! It's a man! It's a priest! It's Christopher Reeve not playing Superman! In Monsignor, the Man of Steel quick-changes to become a man of the cloth. Reeve, 29, plays an Irish Catholic priest from New York's Lower East Side who rises to become a Cardinal. The actor, a lapsed Episcopalian, spent seven weeks taking Catholic instruction from Paulist priests. For one location scene in Sicily...
...standards of South Africa's all-white National Party, Prime Minister Pieter Willem Botha, 66, is a moderate. In his 18th-floor office in Cape Town, he talked with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark about the political battle raging within Afrikanerdom. When Clark joked that the Prime Minister, who describes himself as a conservative, though not an "embalmed" one, bore no visible scars from his recent skirmishes, Botha replied: "I suppose I am like a crayfish-always in hot water." Excerpts from the interview...