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...Houston, who took technical command of Columbia 1 sec. off the pad, managed to ease the crisis by more of the improvised remote-control repair work that has saved the day in past emergencies. But one of Columbia's three battery-like fuel cells was ruined and the craft's electrical capability was reduced by a third. After some soul searching NASA's bosses prudently called the mission to an early halt...
...sister, childhood could be an unending melotrauma of nightmares and broken ideals. Gray was the winsome lad, then the sturdy teen-ager of Father Knows Best; he navigated adolescence like a middle-class Huck Finn. O'Brien and Gray were natural, winning, resourceful actors who took both their craft and their function as role models seriously. Their like has not been seen since-and, sibling, do we need them...
...across the Atlantic, a pioneering trip that was half as far and twice as calm. This time, he said, "things were very, very bad." The 26-story helium balloon leaked throughout the 5,070-mile journey. Ice built up on its thin skin, and thunderstorms wildly buffeted the craft. Losing altitude prematurely, the crew worried about not making landfall. In the crash landing, Aoki was briefly knocked unconscious. But they were down, no one was seriously hurt, and Abruzzo was asked once again why men do such things. "For the adventure, the achievement, the challenge," he said...
...beyond, it was Spencer Tracy, the stolid, sensitive man of whom Laurence Olivier said: "I've learned more about acting from watching Tracy than in any other way." Tracy and Hepburn may have seemed intractable opposites?the anchor and the billowing sail?but a love of their craft and an eye for home truths brought them together and kept them there. On-screen and off, he played her leading man until his death...
Hepburn does not disdain the actor's craft; she puts it in perspective. She is happy to talk about some of her favorite leading men. Spencer Tracy (nine films with Hepburn, from Woman of the Year in 1942 to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1967): "Spence was a magic actor, funny and quick." Gary Grant (Sylvia Scarlett, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story): "He was great fun. He had a wonderful sense of comedy." John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn): "He wasn't as clever as Spence, but a brilliant actor nonetheless, bigger than life in his performance?...