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Norton said the 22 divers aboard the Navy salvage ship USS Preserver concentrated their efforts in a zone where "good sonar images" showed the 10-by-17 foot "inertial upper stage" rocket was resting on the ocean bottom...
...eerily silent orange-yellow blossom of flame suddenly appeared above them, Morse frantically searched through his lens for the speck that might be the separating shuttle, headed for an emergency landing or ditching in the ocean. "Get over to the landing site," he shouted at his assistant. But it was apparent from the cobweb-like streamers filling the sky after the explosion that there was little hope the astronauts had survived...
...accepted what the mind could not: a sudden burst of white and yellow fire, then white trails streaming up and out from the fireball to form a twisted Y against a pure heaven, and the metal turning to rags, dragging white ribbons into the ocean. A terrible beauty exploded like a primal event of physics -- the birth of a universe; the death of a star; a fierce, enigmatic violence out of the blue. The mind recoiled in sheer surprise. Then it filled with horror...
...Pacific Ocean archipelago has 26 million voters in 90,000 precincts. Final figures were not expected for days...
...budget would raise fees for using the national parks, impose a $10-per-angler licensing fee for fishing in the ocean, trim benefits under the G.I. bill, cut federal support for the Interstate Highway system and require able-bodied welfare recipients to engage in some "work-related activity" to continue receiving federal help...