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...Starke, Fla. Sullivan was found guilty of the 1973 slaying of the night manager of a restaurant outside Miami. Although he first confessed to the crime, Sullivan later recanted. His cause was then taken up by priests who counseled him in prison. Sullivan's execution was the ninth in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted the ban on capital punishment...
Inexperience at the eighth and ninth positions led to losses for the Crimson, as Tao Johnson succumbed in four games and last week's hero at Navy, freshman Joe Dowling, playing for the first time in a close match, was vanquished in three games. "Joe was in about the same position as the Patriots' quarterback Tony Eason two weeks ago, he had never really played in that situation before, and he was nervous," said Fish...
...mended fences and tinkered with tractors. Everywhere, however, the question was the same: What did you think of The Day After, in which the town was atomized on television screens across the nation? "It showed just how awful an attack would be. Some kids cried," said Sarah Stewart, a ninth-grader at Central Junior High School. "There were some spots that moved me, but it did not teach me much," said Dar Malott, owner of Malott's hardware store. Said Alex Hamilton, a student at Lawrence High School: "It raised a lot of questions, like what...
...days after The Day After, the Public Broadcasting Service showed a film that was strikingly similar and strikingly different: Cambodia and Laos, the ninth installment of its seemingly interminable history of the Viet Nam War. Compared with the 100 million people who watched the imaginary bombing of Lawrence, Kans., only a minuscule number watched the real bombing of Cambodia. The press, which devoted large headlines to The Day After, lost Cambodia in a kind of time warp. Since TV shows get covered when they start, the Viet Nam series had been widely reviewed two months before-old news...
There are other noteworthy aspects about the ninth shuttle flight. By the time Columbia lands on the California desert 144 orbits later on Dec. 7, it will have completed the longest shuttle journey, one day (and 400,000 miles) more than any previous flight. Columbia's six-man crew will be the largest to fly aboard the shuttle and will include the first non-American astronaut. But clearly the highlight of the trip will be the debut of the 33,252-lb. Spacelab. It represents the first real marriage of space engineering to fundamental scientific research in the manned...