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...these TV views also revealed a possible hitch: a handful of the spacecraft's 30,000 or so silica tiles, essential for insulating Columbia against the flaming, 2,400° F heat of re-entry into the atmosphere, had fallen off. Apparently they were shaken loose during maximum vibrations in the first few moments of the launch, possibly when the solid-fuel rockets were kicked away. The tiles, about a dozen in all, came from the area just above the orbital maneuvering engines on either side of the rudder. Mission controllers quickly pointed out that this was a noncritical...
They hope to garner the money needed to meet tax payments and other immediate expenses by soliciting alumni. In addition, they are planning a capital fund drive to pay off some of the larger debts. The only hitch Pudding officials have encountered so far is University jealousy--Harvard does not want competition with its own capital campaign...
...flaring out from beneath the Columbia space shuttle, the immense cloud of steam created by burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen that drifted out to sea were emblems of success. The long delayed final test firing of Columbia's three main engines had at last gone off without a hitch. Columbia's moment of triumph made it probable that as early as April the shuttle would carry an American into space for the first time since 1975 and take its place as the world's first reusable rocket ship, flying round trips between earth and orbit...
...late Shah and his close relatives; 3) the unfreezing of Iranian assets held by U.S. banks; and 4) the cancellation of U.S. legal and financial claims against Iran. The Carter Administration had already agreed in principle to try to meet those demands, but the Majlis added a hitch: the captives would be released in stages as each condition...
...addition to the fulrmnations, there was, as always with good news from Tehran, a big hitch: the Majlis decreed that the hostages would not all be freed together ? or necessarily right away. Instead they would be released in groups as each of the demands was met. The Administration had earlier agreed in principle to all the conditions, but there remained some enormous and highly complex technical problems. One example: cutting the legal tangles tying up the Iranian funds, a process that was sure to be time consuming and controversial (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...