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...history of the space program, Enterprise, the shuttle has presented as many political problems as technical ones ever since its conception in the 1960s. Denounced as a "senseless extravaganza in space" by Vice President Walter Mondale while he was still in the Senate, the shuttle created such a furor that NASA was repeatedly forced to compromise its design. In the present version, the orbiter looks much like a bloated DC-9. It will rise vertically off the pad on the back of a large cylindrical tank containing liquid propellants used to power two booster rockets attached to its sides...
...describes a Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, a group of stolid conventional young burghers who are genuinely puzzled by the furor around them. Why don't students want a Jaycee group on campus? Why can't the girl who takes a full page ad in Daily Variety to advertise her availability as a star realize her dream? Why do bikers gangbang women, trash stores? Didion answers...
Rather mild by Nixon-tape standards, perhaps, but coming from the "born-again" Christian from Plains, Ga., the remark touched off a furor that newspapers and TV stations had a hard time deciding how to handle (see PRESS). Far from being embarrassed, White House aides were proud of the boss's feistiness. Indeed, they encouraged Congressmen to confirm Carter's words. Kennedy roared with laughter when he heard about Carter's crack, and later joked, "I always knew the White House would stand behind me, but I didn't realize how close they would be." Funny...
...became, in a sense, my own child." She was not permitted her first romantic screen kiss until 1927, 18 years after she came to the movies. When she cut off her long golden curls and bobbed her hair, flapper-style, a year or so later, it caused a national furor. "You would have thought I murdered someone, and perhaps 1 had, but only to give her successor a chance to live...
...overlay furor was the last in a series of Cambridge-Harvard clashes. "Since then they've been quiet, doing nothing to ameliorate or exacerbate the situation," Preusser said. "I don't think they're out to shock us anymore," Sullivan added. "Every time they act contrary to the interests of Cambridge, we stand ready to confront them. The city has a great deal of police power. We have the right to take them to court anytime," he added...