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...Project Whitecloud, over the telephone. Yet at NASA's Johnson Space Center gift shop in Houston, souvenir envelopes decorated with detailed drawings of the satellite, clearly labeled PROJECT WHITECLOUD, had been on sale at $1 apiece for years. The envelopes even explained how the satellite dispensed three smaller craft in 700-mile-high orbits to scan the ocean, monitoring "shipboard radar and communications signals." It was hardly a hot seller: only about 35 had been purchased since...
...Office of the Arts regularly invites outstanding creative or performing artists to talk to students about their craft. Other artists scheduled for this fall include Carroll O'Connor and Glenn Close...
...actor finds a beguiling blend of character study and star quality. The director and designer devise different strategies that can serve a single stage. The company struts its chameleon craft, and the audience relishes a smorgasbord of theater history. Such are the pleasures of repertory, especially as executed by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. In its City home at the Barbican Theater in London, or on its country estate at Stratford-upon-Avon, the R.S.C. may perform as many as five plays a week. The company's tours of North America, though, have displayed only a fraction...
...been based on three major decisions: Dwight Eisenhower's 1955 move to initiate space travel with the development of the Vanguard satellite; John F. Kennedy's 1961 decision to put people on the moon; and Richard M. Nixon's 1969 plan to do away with the disposable space craft and develop the shuttle. The next stop. NASA officials say, is to develop a permanent U.S. presence in space with an eye toward commercialization...
...exhibits at the National Business Aircraft Association Convention, the industry's biggest trade show, were aircraft ranging from a luxurious $3.6 million helicopter to superlight planes made of titanium and graphite-epoxy composites. Multinational companies were attracted to the Falcon 900 (price: $13.5 million), a 27-seat craft introduced last month and capable of flying from New York to Tokyo with just one stop. High-rolling investment bankers liked the Gulfstream IV 19-passenger twin jet (also $13.5 million), with video screens at every seat and a computerized flight deck that an airline captain might envy...