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...week wore on and Souter came to life, he was transmuted from a dazed and gray-faced gnome standing awkwardly beside the tall and tanned Bush into a Yankee original in the mold of astronauts Alan Shepard and Christa McAuliffe and the last Supreme Court Justice to hail from the Granite State, Harlan Fiske Stone. By choosing someone so hard to pigeonhole, indeed, someone from another era, Bush may have created the kind of philosophical gridlock he felt he needed to get his nominee swiftly approved. If Americans are lucky, they will also get the kind of Justice they need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Souter: An 18th Century Man | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...finished classes yesterday, and she's a great writer," said Christa Martin, of Boston University. "It's a wonderful way to spend...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: Pulitzer-Winning Author Alice Walker Visits Coop | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

...Today, up here where the blue sky turns to black," said commander Frederick H. Hauck, "we can say at long last to Dick, Mike, Judy, to Ron and El, and to Christa and Greg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astronauts Salute Challenger Comrades | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...seven who died aboard Challenger were Richard Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe and Gregory Jarvis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astronauts Salute Challenger Comrades | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...races around the oval-shaped wooden track, cyclists usually jockey for position until an opportune moment occurs to seize the lead and outsprint one's opponent to the finish. East Germany's Christa Rothenburger Luding, a speed-skating gold medalist in Calgary, depended upon legs made strong on ice to surge to another medal last week, a silver in the 1,000-meter match sprint. That made the 28-year-old physical-education student the first athlete ever to win a winter and summer medal in the same Olympic year. Luding missed achieving a pure gold winter-summer double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Shorts: Putting Her Hopes on Ice | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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