Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight was one more coup for Challenger's designer, Paul MacCready, 55, of Pasadena, Calif. Four years ago, the innovative aeronautical engineer achieved an aviation milestone when another of his diaphanous, lightweight craft, the Gossamer Condor, became the first plane to complete a 1.15-mile, figure-eight course on human power alone (generated by a bicycle-like set of pedals). Two years later MacCready's Gossamer Albatross made the first such muscle-powered crossing over the English Channel...
...Soviet Union, where leaders appear in public only on state occasions. No elected President or Prime Minister could behave that aloofly and expect to win a second term. The courageous and the fatalistic among leaders will always take risks, but in certain small ways these can be minimized. New lightweight bulletproof vests should be worn. Open-car travel must stop. The public should be kept well back from entrances and exits -most recent assassination attempts have been from pointblank range. "There is no way you can provide complete protection," says one American security expert. "But you can give a subject...
...maybe it's just osmosis, Nancy. Consider that all four of her Kirkland House roommates have been varsity team captains--Chris Sailer in lacrosse and field hockey, Katie Kelly in swimming. Annie Velie in lacrosse and Janice Nevin, last year in lightweight crew...
...have an exam tomorrow or I'd celebrate," seemed to be the oft heard line at the hotel. "Rowing in exam period really makes you put sports at Harvard into perspective." Sigal concluded. More than half the lightweight oarsmen at yesterday's race have exams today...
Some of the sophistication is home grown, the product of Israel's fast-developing and innovative defense industry-the seventh largest in the world. The weapons have been designed for Israel's own needs: the lightweight, high-powered UZI submachine gun, which has become a symbol of Israeli arms technology; the heavily armored and sharpshooting Merkava (Chariot) main battle tank, which can carry five infantrymen; and the highly maneuverable Kfir-C2 fighter-bomber. But Israel also sells increasing quantities of these and other weapons on the world market. At least 750,000 UZls have gone to 40 countries...