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...They have a real height advantage and that's what they used to win," said Harvard Co-Captain Wendy Joseph. Indeed, the hosts' trio of six-footers--Jane Daigle, Sue Murray and Margo Peterson--combined for 48 of their team's 59 points...
Weinberger angrily denounced the Post story as "the height of journalistic irresponsibility." Publication of such stories, he fumed, "can only give aid and comfort to the enemy." Washington Post Managing Editor Leonard Downie replied that the revelations did not "remotely" threaten national security. "The very sparse information that we published this morning is well known throughout Washington and the world," he insisted. Both the Post and NBC maintained that they continued to withhold technical information about the shuttle mission that was not so widely known...
...collecting signals and the other for sending them back to earth stations. Earlier rocket-launched versions weighed a little more than a ton. The shuttle, with its greater thrust and ample cargo bay, permits the U.S. to launch a satellite three times as large and boost it to a height of 22,300 miles, where it can stay in "geosynchronous" orbit, maintaining its position over the same spot of the earth...
...power of the council has varied from President to President and chairman to chairman. The CEA's influence reached its height under Walter Heller, who advised Kennedy and Johnson and devised the very successful tax cut of 1964. Gardner Ackley, Heller's successor, recalls meeting with Johnson as often as three times a day. On occasion they talked economics while rambling around in a Jeep on L.B.J.'s ranch...
...information gathered will then be fed into computers. Classified data on weapon yields and height of bursts will be included as well. Still, there is no guarantee that all the mysteries of nuclear winter can be unraveled. Says Alan Hecht, director of the National Climate Program Office in Washington: "We're being asked to solve a question that is at the heart of meteorology today." In other words, if scientists cannot predict tomorrow's weather, how can they foresee the aftermath of World...