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Ever eager to win support in high places, NASA dispatched one of its 23-inch desktop models of space shuttle Columbia to Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. But like the original, it had a few problems. As the model sat in Meese's darkened office over the weekend, its cargo bay inexplicably swung open. Small metal pieces fell out. So sensitive is the White House alarm system these days that a flock of "white mice"-the nickname for agents responsible for office security-came scurrying. To their bafflement, they found the room locked, unoccupied and undisturbed. As with the real...
...President, thanks to his remarkable physical constitution, has apparently been spared complications. Besides the six-inch scar on his left side, Reagan's only hospital vestige will be a bill-to be paid by insurance for federal employees injured on the job. -By Kurt Anderson...
...album's coda emerges on the seven-inch e.p., containing more experimental material. It has two excellent, straightforward reggae songs recorded in London with reggae musicians, attacking hypocrisies and race riots, and a long, less happy-go-lucky, more personal, powerful version of the album's "Christine," as well as a throwaway song composed in the studio, "Lovers' Walk." There are similar superfluities on the album, like "Ghost of a Chance," but the extended length project accurately reflects Jeffreys' creative energy and vision. Daring to confront and reinterpret his own work, to create music with players of different nationalities...
Within a week he was back at it. Kirk and Studly had received their new (constantly locked) door, but Lippert has already tired of Kung-fu. Wishing to spend some time with his buddies he crawled out onto a six-inch ledge. 40 feet above a concrete landing and tapped on their window. Fearing more for their own lives than for Lippert's. Kirk and Studly refused to let him in. They paid for this later...
Wayne Minshew said left-handed reliever Larry Bradford, who attended Clark College in Atlanta, came up with the idea of placing the one-inch strip of taps on the helmets and was joined in the gesture by the rest of the squad...