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...about 50% of all astronauts in their first few days of weightlessness. The Challenger team members share an office at the Johnson Space Center. They practice endlessly in the shuttle cockpit simulator, rehearsing every conceivable facet of the mission, including possible emergencies. They have come to be as close-knit as a family, even to the extent of protecting Ride from an overly inquisitive press. When she quietly married fellow Astronaut Steve Hawley last July (he will fly on the twelfth shuttle flight with Resnik), her Challenger comrades respected her wish to keep her private life private...
...different effect on Black students than on whites." Black student leaders agree that changes in the incoming Black students have only mandated new priorities for Black groups, the underlying need for the organizations remain unchanged. So while, it is unlikely that these groups will regain the united, close-knit structure of the early 1970s, the evolution of the Black organizations speaks well for their capacity to endure. Whatever their tone, these groups will continue to be heard on campus.CrimsonTimothy W. Plass"Politics-is not higher than art."--Patricla S. Bellinger, '83, former president of Black C.A.S.T...
...ceremonies, conducted in a second-class hotel in the Beirut suburb of Khalde and three hours later in a community cultural center in the Israeli border town of Qiryat Shemona, were aptly symbolic. In the Khalde ceremony, Lebanese Negotiator Antoine Fattal held his chin in knit fingers, and his eyes were downcast. He applauded politely but without enthusiasm when his Israeli counterpart, David Kimche, made a brief speech praising the agreement that was about to be signed. Lebanese President Amin Gemayel summed up his countrymen's attitude when he later declared, "Lebanon is not holding celebrations today. Lebanon...
Such feats are all in a week's work for the two Senators and eleven Congressmen from Massachusetts. The close-knit, mostly liberal delegation is the bane of President Reagan on Capitol Hill. After Reagan nominated Kenneth Adelman to direct the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas provocatively suggested that Adelman's defeat would be "the Senate's equivalent of a nuclear freeze." The freeze movement was spearheaded in the Senate by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and in the House by Markey. And after Reagan denounced public service jobs as "make work" programs...
...friends who would ask, 'How are you,' in a nice plural sense; it was very probing," says Andrew Wolfe, a senior from Leverett House. Andrew and Jamie will be married on June 25 in Cleveland, where Jamie's family lives in a closely-knit Slavinian community...