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...launch date approached, the sense of exhilaration quickened. "It was put together in a hell of a hurry," said Pilot Walker with apparent delight. On the appointed day, turbulent winds of up to 80 m.p.h. at high altitude postponed the liftoff from Cape Canaveral. But nearly everything that NASA could control, it did. When the weather calmed down the next morning, the black-and-white bird threaded skyward only 70 milliseconds late. The one-day delay meant that the launch came on Gardner's birthday, and he promised "not to blow out the candle until 8½ minutes into...
...days after Discovery's lift-off from Cape Canaveral, a rival space vehicle blasted into the heavens on a mission that was considerably less acclaimed but, for the commercial future of the U.S. space program, ominously successful. Ariane V 11, the latest effort of the eleven-nation European Space Agency, rose from the space center at Kourou in the equatorial jungles of French Guiana to an orbit of 22,300 miles above the equator. There the rocket deposited two communications satellites. One of them, like many of Ariane's payloads, was sponsored by an international communications agency...
This is the first major setback for PBA, which was founded in 1949 by Van Arsdale's father. He started out with flights in a four-seater plane from Boston to Provincetown, a resort community on the northern tip of Cape Cod. Three years later he opened up a Florida operation, based in Naples, to keep his planes busy during the winter. In 1980 Van Arsdale retired and turned over the successful company to his sons John, 40, and Peter, 36, who is currently president. The two siblings took off on an ambitious growth program that has expanded...
...second exotic subject is more mysterious, almost surreal. It is a zebra mare, which had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope and given to Queen Charlotte in 1762. This "painted African, ass," the first seen in England, was installed in the royal menagerie at Buckingham Gate. When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it. It is as though one had taken a wrong turn in the Forest of Arden and encountered...
...suffered puncture wounds and lost much of his left buttock when a shark mauled him in the waters north of San Francisco. Surfer Bob Rice, 25, watched in horror as a 12-ft. carnivore clamped down on the front of his surfboard before swimming away in the waves off Cape Kiwanda, Ore. Says he: "It missed my hips by about four inches...