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...next year or so, however, the recovery looks solid. TIME'S economists predicted that growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, would slow from its torrid 9.2% annual rate of the second quarter but still glide along at a healthy 4.4% pace in 1984. The unemployment rate is expected to drift downward from its current 9.5% level to 8.2% by the end of next year...
Like all commercial jets, the 767 is designed to glide without power for a distance at least 16 times its altitude. In the case of Air Canada Flight 143, that meant more than 100 miles. As soon as the second engine went out, an elaborate series of automatic backup mechanisms was activated. A 24-volt nickel-cadmium emergency battery took over the plane's dead electrical system, providing enough juice to operate the radio and the key instruments in the cockpit. At the same time, a ram-air turbine dropped into position beneath the aircraft's belly...
...Friday morning, after six days in space and 95½ orbits of the earth, if the schedule holds and winds and weather are fair, Challenger will end its flight. Crippen and his copilot, Rick Hauck, 42, will glide the 100-ton craft to the first shuttle landing on the new three-mile-long runway at the Kennedy Space Center, with President Reagan looking on. Thus Challenger, which was prepared for flight in a record 63 days, will avoid the long and expensive cross-country piggyback haul that followed previous touchdowns on the Western deserts. The price for the convenience...
...energy detailing much more mundane aspects of the seventh shuttle mission: that it will carry aloft two more communications satellites, one Canadian, the other Indonesian; that the five-man (oops!) -member crew will be the largest yet launched in any space vehicle; and that the 100-ton craft will glide to a landing for the first time on a new three-mile strip at Florida's Kennedy Space Center rather than on the Western deserts, where there is more room for error...
...trancelike stillness-comes a very young woman in red (Deirdre Carberry) to be partnered through soupy Glazounov waltz tunes. That is no easy job, since this muse is coltish and blithely selfabsorbed. Three more young women (Elaine Kudo, Nancy Raffa, Amanda McKerrow), wearing costumes that suggest old-fashioned pinafores, glide in and out. At the end, his red-geranium partner's having vanished, Baryshnikov is hypnotized by the retreating figure of McKerrow...