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...near miss. Problems with advanced robotic welders and material handlers slowed initial production so that only 10,000 cars, less than a third the number needed, were in showrooms on the official introduction date, Oct. 2, 1980. Chrysler flubbed in other ways as well. lacocca sent the earliest models out with high-profit options like velour upholstery and electric window lifts that pushed the sticker price from $6,000 up to $9,000. But buyers did not want the extras. Until the production imbalance was corrected, sales did not really take...
...while it took pride in the performance of the infrared telescope, NASA last week was confronted by new difficulties with the troubled space shuttle Challenger. Standing forlornly on its Florida pad since Nov. 30, the gleaming $1 billion orbiter will probably not be launched before mid-March at the earliest, two months late. Reason: a hazardous hydrogen leak required the removal last week of one of Challenger's three main rocket engines, a task never before attempted while a shuttle was still...
...From its earliest preview last December, this musical with magic found itself riddled with afflictions. Doug Henning, 35, may be America's premier illusionist, number his impish persona in eight TV specials and the longrunning 1974 extravaganza The Magic Show. But there are three things he cannot do onstage: sing, dance and act. To compensate, he cannily plays history's greatest wizard and surrounds himself with kinetic performers...
Johnson's earliest frustrations centered on the collapse of his family's economic and social status after his father's failure in a grandiose farming and ranching scheme Earlier, the Johnson had behaved as if they were a cut above the hardscrabble-farmer neighbors--his mother was a college graduate and his father a popular, respected state legislator, both descended from prominent pioneer stock, and their pride fired his ambition. But after Sam Ealy Johnson's fall. Johnson City and Blanco County struck back against their once-haughty denizens, systematically snubbing the Johnsons over a period of years. Humiliation reached...
...sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space, and protect. But we come to understand its dangers too: how it is used to oppress and exclude; what can befall those who come too close to secrets they were not meant to share; and the price of betrayal...