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LIFE AFTER THE SPLIT. Jane Fonda's glamour was never enough to catapult Tom Hayden out of the California assembly. Now Hayden may run for the state's top eco-watchdog post, which he helped create. High-profile landfill work could be a prelude to a 1992 bid for Alan Cranston's Senate seat...
...step one in the Civil Rights Movement was to catapult Blacks into powerful public positions, step two must be to realize that in every race there are the unqualified, the unethical, the unworthy...
...easy to understand the sense of pride the nation took in its accomplishment. After all, hadn't America been founded on just the same spirit of adventure and exploration? Didn't the sheer effort required to catapult three astronauts millions of miles beyond their native sphere attest, once and for all, to the dominance of American technology...
Four years have passed since Gorbachev launched his crash program to catapult the Soviet economy into the computer age, and the results are just starting to show. Soviet manufacturers cranked out a record 100,000 microcomputers last year, bringing the total number of personal computers to an estimated 200,000. That is a far cry from the 30 million machines Moscow estimates the country can absorb. By all accounts, Gorbachev's electronic- literacy program will fall far short of its ambitious goal of installing a million computers in the schools...
August 9, Kansas City. The Sox continue to pistol whip the American League opposition and catapult to second place in the East. Boggs has been missing for 10 days. He was last seen in The Can's hotel room photographing him with a blow-up Cap'n Crunch...