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...sure scared us," said Flight Director Cleon Lacefield. Less than six minutes after launch last week, while the space shuttle Challenger's speed remained well below the velocity of 17,500 m.p.h. that it must achieve to go into orbit, onboard computers shut down one of its three main engines. Reason: sensors were signaling overheating in the fuel pump. Two and a half minutes later, another engine seemed to overheat. "If the right engine had failed ... we would have been in the water," Lacefield said afterward, meaning that Challenger, with its crew of seven, would have fallen in a controlled...
...Sunny M. Lacefield, a patron of the Mass. Ave. store near Porter Square, said she will continue to come to Starbucks despite the increase in prices...
...What I want out of a Core curriculum is to be able to explore new fields of knowledge, to appreciate different aspects of the world in a way that would not have been apparent from my previous experiences," says Clay O. Lacefield '97. "Harvard has done that...
When the Civil War began the Vaidens, like their neighbors, were surprised but immediately set about to make short work of the Yankees. Before the young men went to the army there was to be a double wedding: Miltiades Vaiden and Drusilla Lacefield, A. Gray Lacefield and Marcia Vaiden. But the night before the wedding Drusilla eloped with Major Crowninshield, and Marcia was not sorry her wedding was postponed, because she too was really in love with the Major. Miltiades went grimly off to war and took orders from the man who had stolen his bride, until Crowninshield was killed...
Augustus joined the cavalry, was badly wounded in his first skirmish, fell in love with his hospital nurse and married her. Polycarp Vaiden and A. Gray Lacefield came through the war unhurt. But before they got home again the Yankees had been there and had not left much to come back to. When the reconstructed Negroes got uppity Miltiades organized and headed the local Ku Klux Klan. Then Polycarp was shot from ambush. Marcia had little excuse left for not marrying A. Gray, but at the last minute was won by Jerry Catlin, a Southerner who had fought...
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