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Mahon pitched flawless (0.00 ERA) ball, facing 30 batters and relinquishing only six hits, all singles. She vielded only three walks in her season debut as a starting pitcher...
...simple and flawless, almost as if it had been performed countless times before. Yet the picture-perfect landing on California's Mojave Desert last week all but obscured the historic nature of those last, breathtaking moments of Columbia's 54½-hr. odyssey. Gone were the great parachutes and swinging capsules of earlier space missions, splashing into the sea, never to travel into space again. For the first time, a man-made machine had returned from the heavens like an ordinary airplane-in fact, far more smoothly than many a commercial jet. So long delayed so widely criticized...
...White House tape system might never have been revealed and Richard Nixon might never have resigned.) Luck was the invisible hand that prompted Skylab to scatter its debris over Western Australia, not rush-hour Manhattan. Even transcendently foresighted NASA might admit that the space shuttle's flawless flight last week involved some luck. The luck of the universe (by one new theory) once banged an immense asteroid into the earth, raising a dust cloud so dense that it blocked off the sunlight, ruined the planet's food chain, and thereby brought on the extinction of the dinosaurs...
...them for life. They don't have to see the beauty in the harsh New England weather or the luxury of their libraries and playing fields. And to their own loss, many do not understand why they will spend so much of their adult lives trying to recapture that flawless sixth-form year. "It's downhill for a lot of people after prep school. There's a definite sense of loss," one of our roommates likes to observe...
...waiting, watching world. Two days late but this time almost precisely on its new schedule-indeed, only 3.983 sec. late, by Launch Control's incredibly accurate reckoning-the spaceship Columbia took off on man's first commuter run into the heavens. Two minutes after the flawless liftoff, the two solid-fuel boosters folded back from the 75-ton space shuttle and began to settle under parachutes about 160 miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean, only 16 miles off target, for recovery by ship and later reuse. Said Mission Control: "Columbia is now committed to space travel...