Word: crew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...especially noted the performances of his senior crew. Three of the seniors, Co-Captain Richard Hughes, Jim Tuchler and Dan Veatch, tolalled 169 points in individual competition as well as contributing in relays...
...crew jocks...
...special public service, a few soundtracks specially geared to the Harvard lifestyle. These songs are the product of those early Dorm Crew mornings when, bored with bashing my howling vacuum cleaner into your hallway doors, I begin to long desparately to be someone else...
Wills also collects some of the more telling anecdotes Reagan has told through the years. One of Reagan's favorite tales involves the crew of a B-17 hit during World War II. After the crew bailed out, as Reagan tells it, the pilot turned to a gunner too wounded to move. The gunner implored the pilot to save himself but to no avail. "Never mind, son," the pilot says. "We'll ride it down together." Reagan tells this story to exemplify the difference between Americans and Russians. Okay. But if the two pilots were alone in the plane...
McConnell also suggests that NASA's overworked employees unwittingly contributed to the disaster. They--and by extension the Challenger crew--were the victims of unrelenting stress and abominable working conditions...