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Made largely of tough lightweight plastics -Kevlar fiber struts, Mylar sheathing, a Lucite windscreen, all from the project's sponsor, Du Pont-Challenger weighs only 217 lbs., excluding Ptacek, who had managed to diet down...
More evidence for the prosecution came from Georgia Crime Lab Microanalyst Larry Peterson. A purple thread from Williams' bedspread, a green fiber from his bedroom rug and several hairs from his pet German shepherd, said Peterson, showed "no significant microscopic difference" from fibers found in Cater's hair. Police have long hinted at the importance of this "trace evidence," and last week said that their findings had been confirmed by forensic experts from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. None of this seemed to impress Defense Attorney Welcome. Said she to reporters...
...Harvard's continuing reluctance to give credit for courses at other universities, there is a pervasive attitude that Harvard is the best. Certainly there is much at Harvard that is extraordinary, but the attitude of being "the best" colors every aspect of University life and gnaws at the moral fiber of the University and its students...
Well, hey, it's reading period, and when there are only two days left of it, those days spent out on the golf course don't always get undivided attention. The Lamont nightlife tends to take over, if the fiber fatigue doesn't. And fourth place isn't really embarrassing when you wound up seventh last year...
...which brand-new Marine recruits are told to stand; the puce and canary Braniff jetliners that fly replacements to Da Nang as if it were a trip to Disney World; U.C.L.A. sweatshirts left behind by retreating Viet Cong; the exploding shoeshine box of an urchin-guerrilla; the contoured fiber-glass chairs that give a military morgue the look of a "futuristic barbership"; the computer printout that informs one veteran that he has been honorably discharged ("I thought I'd at least get a little plaque or something...