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...Crippen's copilot.) With helpful nudges from Nelson and Van Hoften, Solar Max will be eased into a special cradle in the cargo bay for the repair. The astronauts' task in the bay will be to remove a defective attitude-control module, a 500-lb., orange-crate-size package that contains the whirling gyroscope-like wheels and other electronic gear for maintaining Solar Max's position in space. The entire job, from grappling the satellite to installing the new module, should take six hours...
...funnier--as it is, it comes off worse than the stuff it makes fun of. A sci-fi movie has to display more interesting sets or else has to have some outdoor shots--there's really nothing here that you couldn't see by browsing through Crate and Barrel and then cruising through the video arcade next day. As it is, the atmosphere is boring and claustrophobic...
...giant CH-46 helicopter lifted off slowly from its landing pad inside the U.S. Marine compound, its pilot careful to avoid jerking the huge netted crate that hung like ballast beneath it. With machine gunners at the ready, it whirred low over the beachside terrain and headed for U.S. Navy ships on the horizon, there to set down its cargo just as gingerly. Meanwhile, 400 yds. to the west, a steady stream of landing craft nosed into a heavily fortified jetty and began collecting a seemingly endless line of forklift pallets lashed to more wooden crates. "The beach has been...
...developing Mac, Jobs, who became Apple's chairman in 1981, was looking for a new president to guide the company. He ultimately recruited John Sculley, 44, from PepsiCo with a salary and bonus package worth $2 million. Sculley soon began putting some order in the Apple crate. He started by easing out six of the firm's 15 senior executives. Two officials pictured in the company's annual report, which was mailed out only last month, no longer hold the same positions. Sculley, who often lapses into M.B.A.-speak, describes his pruning of the work force from...
...diplomatic clash occurred. U.S. soldiers insisted on searching the car. "We're looking for bombs," an American officer disingenuously explained. The ambassador grumpily assented. But for nearly eight hours he angrily resisted efforts by U.S. soldiers to search all of the Soviet baggage, including a number of unsealed crates. When he finally and reluctantly yielded, the reason for his obduracy became clear: one crate contained 28 AK-47 automatic rifles, 300 loaded AK-47 magazines and five loaded pistols. The cache was confiscated before the passengers were flown to Mexico to catch an Aeroflot jet to the Soviet Union...