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Still, the way the boosters continued flying after the explosion prompted some experts to reject the likelihood of a burnthrough in either one. Hurled away from the exploding external tank, both rockets appeared to be moving rather stably, producing the awesome Y-shaped pattern that millions of Americans will never forget. A burnthrough on the side of the casing, several rocket specialists say, would have sent the booster cartwheeling wildly through space. Bob Truax, a retired engineer who directed the Thor missile program in the 1950s, agrees. "After the explosion, they were continuing on a fairly normal trajectory," he says...
...work and be integrated into society as much as possible. Kalar envisages a nationwide system of small halfway houses where the mentally ill and homeless could help one another get back on their feet. It is a helpful suggestion, but no one answer will solve the problem. In all likelihood the problem will never be solved. But so long as we encourage the homeless to wander from shelter to steam vent, we are not helping them; we are forsaking them...
...Marcos chose Arturo ("Turing") Tolentino, 75, a former Foreign Minister whom the President sacked from that job for espousing views incompatible with his own. Theoretically, should Marcos die after winning the Feb. 7 elections, Tolentino would take his place. The wily Marcos may have been trying to dodge that likelihood when he chose as Vice President a man who is seven years his senior. Marcos' opponents fear that the President may still make a last-minute substitution of his ambitious wife Imelda as Vice President. Under a newly promulgated Philippine election code, such a move would be legal right...
Seatbelts have been shown to reduce the likelihood of a driver losing control of his vehicle. Moreover, injuries and accidents that could have been avoided affect us all in the form of higher insurance premiums and medical expenses paid with public taxes...
...when he trained as a butcher in his youth. They also suspected that Castellano had been the source of information for the Government's case against the Commission, through an FBI bug planted in his neoclassical Staten Island home. The leaders were probably convinced that they had a greater likelihood of getting off without Castellano around. Says Ronald Goldstock, director of New York's organized crime task force: "Everyone agreed that they were better off with him dead." But New York FBI Chief John Hogan asserts, "The killing does not hurt our investigation...