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...nicked by debris, and half a dozen more on the starboard wing were inexplicably stripped of their surface glazing. Otherwise, the 100-ton orbiter survived magnificently, even weathering the bold maneuvers-much wilder than anything attempted by the first crew-that Engle put his bird through during the fiery descent. As the orbiter's stubby wings and flared fuselage began getting lift from the thin air in the upper atmosphere, he threw the ship into a sharp 80° bank and worked its big body flap to the limit, pulling the nose up in a series of porpoising motions...
Refused to consider a resolution congratulating Yale on its victory over Harvard in The Game. Introduced by Vellucci. charter-righted by Kevin Crane '71, the order gave special praise to A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale, and defensive start Fred Leone, both of Italian descent...
...quite a persona. Whether the name is Kluckhorn, Perlmutter, or Ginsberg, the same character resurfaces. He is a semi-suave ectomorph who will chase any nubile starlet, whether it requires a descent into a sea of polyester leisure suits at the Americana Hotel or a lengthy sojourn in a Ukrainian cafeteria in the east twenties. Though craven in the utmost, he dashes off to Djibouti or Jakarta at a moments notice, spewing out words along the way like "henbane," "anchor," "parlous," "jardiniere" as well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana...
...spacemen will have to climb into a pressure suit and go outside to reel the limb in. If that fails, the arm will have to be jettisoned in space. For unless the shuttle's big, heat-shielded cargo doors are shut tight, Columbia will not survive the scorching descent through the atmo sphere back to earth...
...result, according to Will, has been an unprecedented social decadence: "Since 1945, the United States has been in the deepest descent since Spain a few centuries ago." Salvation lies in recognizing that the state does affect social behavior, and in channeling government efforts toward creating a "public spiritedness," a "national character." Will's eloquently delivered thesis seems at first convincing; who could support "material self-interest" over "public spiritedness"? But unlike the composer whom Mark Twain described as "better than he sounds," Will sounds better than...