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Last week's testimony also provided distressing new detail about the weather- related worries that developed as a cold front hit the Cape on Jan. 27. After hearing forecasts that the Florida temperature might fall to as low as 18 degrees F that night, Robert Ebeling, a Thiokol engineer at the company's plant in Brigham City, Utah, telephoned McDonald at the Cape about 4 p.m. He said that he and other engineers at the plant were worried about the seals. McDonald then got the latest prediction, about 22 degrees , and, finding this "very serious," called Robert Lund, the vice...
...issue in Washington this year, their dispute is coming to center on the budget. But the dispute is muted because Casey is perhaps the only official in the entire Government whose spending proposals cannot even be discussed in public. They are buried in the Pentagon budget and evaluated in detail only by the 15 Senators and 16 Representatives on the watchdog committees. For all their misgivings, the committees approved spending increases that averaged 20% annually during the early Reagan years. Best guess as to the current total: $2 billion...
...Cruse, after blasting the lack of intellectual scrutiny among Blacks, proceeded to wave away any questions concerning Farrakhan at last fall's lecture. While he noted the leader's boldness, he hinted that he saw problems in Farrakhan's ideology. But he flatly refused to go into detail...
...looked in and got the pass from my teammate," he continues, remembering every detail of a single play a half-decade ago, "and I just gave [Ewing] a pump fake. Unless he was trying to block it with his knees, I don't know why he jumped...
...disclosures. First, the New York Times revealed that NASA internal documents had long ago warned about problems with the crucial O rings, the two giant synthetic-rubber washers that seal each joint between the booster-rocket segments. Next, an article in Aviation Week & Space Technology spelled out in extraordinary detail how the starboard booster had caused Challenger's external liquid-fuel tank to explode. Then, NASA released pictures showing a mysterious puff of black smoke apparently emerging from the booster at lift- off. The 13-member panel, which includes former Secretary of State William Rogers, Nobel Laureate Physicist Richard Feynman...