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...Quakers (4-0 overall, 3-0 Ivy) are alone in first place. Led by Bryan Keys' 558 rushing yards (139.5 yards per game), Penn has returned to the Ivy elite after going on hiatus last year...
After a 32- month hiatus, the refurbished shuttle and its veteran five- man crew pass a crucial flight test, send a vital communications satellite into perfect orbit, and help Americans overcome their post- Challenger blues. But can NASA meet its new shuttle launch schedule? And can the U. S. afford expensive shuttle missions for tasks that rockets can do more cheaply? See SPACE...
...both sides, the twelve-year Olympic hiatus has heightened the mystique of the competition. For American athletes -- and even more for American fans -- distance and legend have transformed the Soviets into supposed supermen and super-women, selected when barely out of the cradle and taught like emotionless automatons to excel. This exaggerated notion has some basis in fact. The Soviets have a nationwide network of specialized sports schools for even the youngest potential stars, leading to intensive adult training guided by methodical, scholarly study. High-tech training wizardry is rumored to be compounded by steroids and other chemical help: indeed...
...Iowa, Oregon and Colorado. Unlike Reagan and Richard Nixon, Bush has no firm ties with the West. "What scares me," says a Republican planner, "is the realization that the West is a G.O.P. stronghold but not at all a Bush stronghold." Dukakis has also benefited from the five-month hiatus in Bush's visibility after the Republican nomination was effectively settled on Super Tuesday...
...last time striking Hollywood writers disrupted the start of the fall season, in 1981, they delayed new programs on ABC, NBC and CBS by as little as two weeks. Yet that hiatus probably contributed to the networks' combined loss of 4% of the total viewing audience compared with the fourth quarter of the previous year. The drop proved more than temporary: as cable and independent stations have boomed, the big three's share of prime-time viewing has dropped from 90% at the start of the decade to just 70% in the season that ended last April...