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Rough for Theatre II, the most upbeat and fast-paced play of the three, also stars Langsam and Oleson. Here they don trenchcoats and nose glasses to become "assassins" pouring over documents to determine whether a man should commit suicide...
...America should hold its collective nose and allow the Marcos's and Duvalier's of the world to finish off their sad, little, miserable lives in relative comfort. If that's the price we have to pay so as not to discourage other dictators from one day booking one-way pasage on an Air Force...
...loans this year. M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow warns that the austerity measures that Mexico has endured to pay interest on its debt could make it politically popular for the country's leadership to repudiate the loans. Said Thurow: "What better way for the Mexicans to tweak the Yank's nose than to default on all of the debts." That could set off a financial crisis in the U.S., where many large banks still have multibillion-dollar loans to Mexico on their books. De Vries said, however, that financiers were likely to work out yet another package of new credit with...
...Week, reported that the jet of flame from the side of Challenger's right booster had either melted or wrenched loose the struts that held the booster to the lower end of the external tank. The booster then pivoted on its still intact upper-attachment fitting and crashed its nose into the tank wall. The escaping liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen ignited, causing the fatal explosion. At week's end NASA had not commented on the report...
...casings of both boosters apparently have been located on the ocean floor, although their positions and high seas last week hampered their certain identification and recovery. While both rockets had been reported blown up by radio signals within 30 seconds of the accident, NASA belatedly explained that only the nose cones and nozzles were detonated. With the boosters thus opened at both ends, they lost their exhaust thrust and fell to the water...