Word: crews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time since that winter day 29 months ago when the shuttle Challenger and its crew of seven disappeared in a sickening cloud of smoke and debris, signs of vitality were evident at Florida's Kennedy Space Center last week. To the cheers of hundreds of workers, the redesigned 85-ton orbiter Discovery was rolled into the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building to be attached to the two solid-fuel rocket boosters and the external fuel tank. This week plans call for the entire structure to be moved, at a glacial pace, more than four miles to launching...
...means the lead sheep in a flock.) The nation lost its other remaining perfect prognosticator in 1984, when Walter Mondale edged Reagan by 303 votes in Iowa's Palo Alto County. So this fall the pressure is on in this sparsely populated high desert, where cows outnumber residents and crew cuts never went out of fashion. "I don't know whether Crook County has some rare substance in the air that causes people to think like the average voter," muses County Judge Dick Hoppes. Jokes Barber Jake Lewis: "If it's in the water, the bourbon probably kills...
...championship heavyweight crew consisted of senior bowman Dan Grout, junior Donald Fawcett, senior Steve Wayne, sophomore Jon Bernstein, sophomore Peter Sharis, junior John Rusher, junior Philipp Schuller, junior stroke John Amory and senior coxswain Jim Crick...
...completed an excellent season for Parker's crew. Harvard posted a 7-1 mark, its lone defeat coming in a race with Navy and Pennsylvania on the very choppy Severn River in Annapolis, Md. The heavies also claimed first place at the Eastern Sprints...
Unable to match the success of its heavier counterpart, the Harvard lightweight crew placed second behind top-seeded Princeton in the national championship Empire State Regatta on the Hudson River in Albany, N.Y. It was the second straight year that the lights were runners-up for the national title...