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...engines are up and running!" Cheers rose from the ranks of scientists and technicians packed into the Cape Canaveral control center when the word came. Millions of Americans watching on morning television breathed a sigh of relief. Those red and orange flames flaring out from beneath the Columbia space shuttle, the immense cloud of steam created by burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen that drifted out to sea were emblems of success. The long delayed final test firing of Columbia's three main engines had at last gone off without a hitch. Columbia's moment of triumph made...
Comparatively short to other women players at 5 ft. 5 in., Horne has had to make the transition to guard this year after excelling as a forward in junior high, high school, and numberless years of basketball camp down on the Cape, near her home town of Weymouth, Massachusetts. The transition has been, to say the least, highly successful, though Horne would be the last to admit...
Louis A. Moore Cape Girardeau...
...South Africa's all-white parliament opened its annual session in Cape Town, hopes rose that this might at last be the year for dramatic new moves to ease racial tensions in the country. In his remarks during the opening debates last week, however, Prime Minister P.W. Botha failed to mention any of his longstanding proposals for reducing petty discrimination and improving the plight of urban blacks. Instead, he expounded on such politically safe slogans as the Communist menace and, to the parliament's surprise, announced that he was calling a general election for next April 29. With...
...show has been playing for two days in a circus tent at Hale's 5-H Ranch, a drive-through animal park in Cape Girardeau, Mo. It has brought animal fanciers from 43 states, New Zealand, Mexico and Canada. Close to 2,000 head of animals are on hand, including a couple of elephants (the bidding on one goes to $21,000, but there is no sale, because the owner values them at $40,000 apiece). There are four giraffes, axis deer, oryxes, African crowned cranes and elands that were hand-raised and are, says Hale, "as gentle...