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DIED. Mark Ethridge, 84, liberal, outspoken journalist who as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times between 1936 and 1963 helped lift both newspapers to national prominence; in Moncure, N.C. Ethridge's Louisville stewardship was distinguished by expanded, gimmick-free news coverage, enlivened writing and makeup, and an editorial page that spoke out strongly against such targets as poverty and racism, the latter of which he once described as "a complete humiliation of all people who profess any faith in democracy...
...reached and the strike was being canceled. Cheers erupted from the crowd of several thousand workers and housewives assembled before the wrought-iron gates. They chanted Walesa's nickname, "Leszek, Leszek." As Walesa's car inched through the crush of supporters, some overexuberant fans even managed to lift the rear wheels off the ground. A sticker on Walesa's windshield seemed to capture the spirit of the moment: IT'S EXCITING TO BE POLISH...
...ship into a nearly circular orbit 170 miles above the earth. So it should go this week, shortly after the sun rises over Cape Canaveral on Friday. If there are no new hitches Astronauts John Young, 50, and Robert Crippen, 43, will board their 75-ton orbiter Columbia, lift off from the same launch pad that sent Young and other Apollo astronauts to the moon, and spend 54½ hours racing around the earth before bringing down their magnificent flying machine-the most advanced spacecraft ever built-to a daredevil "dead-stick" landing in California's Mojave Desert. That...
Soon after he began working for Pan Am three summers ago, he became "an idea man" for the design of computer graphics for the lift-off's emergency systems and the shuttle's transmitted information...
Halem said four of his systems that will play an integral role in Columbia's first 17 minutes of flight. One is a computer color graphic display inside the T-38 chase planes, vehicles used to photograph the lift-off and aid the shuttle's pilots in chase of emergency. The display will inform the chase pilots of the shuttle's location and transmit vector information to them in a situation that would require their intervention...