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...blood-red sun was just peeking over the eastern ridge of California's Mojave Desert when the space shuttle Discovery began to descend like a silver hawk in search of prey. As it shattered the sound barrier, a thundering crack! seemed to rend the sky in two, and a cheer swelled from the crowd below. Within minutes the ship had rolled to a halt along the right side of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, kicking up massive clouds of dust. Not since the landing of the first shuttle had NASA officials been so openly emotional. Said Mission...
...show appears to have more complex ambitions: on one recent episode, the family got involved in a local battle over racial discrimination. Call to Glory deserves praise for at least one solid achievement. It has supplanted yet another cop show on ABC's fall schedule: Street Hawk, starring a superpowered motorcycle...
When Street Hawk does show up later this season, it will join several airy action shows modeled on such hits as Magnum, P.I., Simon & Simon, and Scarecrow and Mrs. King. These prototypes have imparted some valuable lessons for the fall...
Hear the language of the prairie wind. The muffled groan of a forgotten and rusted windmill. The taut, thin cry of a young hawk at a thousand feet poised on invisible thermal crests. The worried whispers of hundreds of millions of stalks of corn, ear to fat ear, leaf on leaf. It all says more in ten minutes about beginnings and endings, about hopes and disappointments than Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale have said in a year-a loud, loud year...
...weaponry to West Germany-especially the M1 Abrams tank, the Black Hawk helicopter and the computerized Multiple Launch Rocket System-has cheered the troops. After the 3rd Infantry Division at Wurzburg received its new tanks in 1982, the re-enlistment rate for those eligible to re-up after their first tour of duty shot up from 20% to 70%. On a more mundane level, members of the 8th Infantry at Baumholder are grateful for a new motor-pool building, which has ended the practice of repairing tanks in the icy outdoors during winter...