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NASA had carefully tracked the O-ring problem on paper since 1978, some three years before the first shuttle flight, on April 12, 1981. As early as Jan. 19, 1979, John Q. Miller, chief of the solid motor branch at Marshall, where the boosters were developed, complained to his superiors that the seal was functioning "in a way which violates industry and Government O-ring application practices." On May 29, 1980, a NASA engineering panel noted that the O rings had failed in a ground test and called them "inadequate" for reliability and "marginal" in their safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Fixing Nasa | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard Motor House has been sold out for this week since September, 1982, said Assistant Manager Penny J. Faul. Families of some seniors have had their reservations since Freshman Week--four years...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Big Bucks Time for Square Merchants | 6/3/1986 | See Source »

...past week people have been steadily flowing into Cambridge. "I thought it would be non-stop madness, but everyone seems to be in a pretty good mood. It's friendly," said a desk clerk at the Motor House...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Big Bucks Time for Square Merchants | 6/3/1986 | See Source »

Faul recalled how one family put seven kids through Harvard and stayed at the Harvard Motor House for 11 consecutive Commencements. Eventually the personnel at the hotel became so accustomed to seeing the family that a room was booked for a twelfth year automatically, even though the family hadn't requested one, Faul said...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Big Bucks Time for Square Merchants | 6/3/1986 | See Source »

...with the plastic placentas of cassette containers. The bikers and pink-haired punkettes hanging out in front of Tower Records recognize Molly even before she parks, but the mode is cool: a slow nod, a thin smile and distance. In one corner of the store, David Lee Roth, the motor-mouthing rock star, signs autographs, but Molly is too shy to approach him. Instead, she gets down to business, striking surgically at every rack in the store: rock, pop, jazz, country, blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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