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...THEME OF this year's crop of heroes is the promise which America's youth holds for the future. Reagan praises Richard Cavoli, a young science and medical expert, Tyrone Ford, an accomplished 12-year-old muscian, Shelly Butler, an honors student who saved a girl from being run over by a bus, and Trevor Farrell, a 13-year-old who aids Philadelphia's homeless...
...amusing it is that Reagan praises Tyrone Ford for "surmounting adversity" to become an accomplished musician and calls for greater opportunity. Meanwhile, he pursues cuts in funding for the arts, threatening the opportunities of promising young musicians...
...election this year. State Republicans, fearing that Cuomo may also be a strong presidential candidate in 1988, have been courting an unlikely contender who they think could at least bloody, if not beat, the Governor. Last week Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, allowed that Republican leaders had urged him to run, and that he was actually engaged in a "consideration of their views...
There was, at the apex of detente during Gerald Ford's Administration, a brief hope that space could become a bridge rather than a barrier between the superpowers. In 1975 astronauts and cosmonauts aboard an Apollo and a Soyuz spacecraft linked in a display of heavenly symbolism. But such episodes proved to be merely minor exceptions to the rule that space was inevitably where the superpowers would extend their rivalry...
...University of South Carolina, he recalled feeling discouraged as a college freshman until a guidance counselor urged him to pursue physics "because I think you're good enough." Fortified by those words, McNair went on to earn honors galore. Among them: being named a Presidential Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow, and a doctorate in physics from M.I.T., where he helped develop specialized lasers. Along the way he acquired impressive skills as a saxophonist and fifth-degree black-belt karate instructor...