Word: outer
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...several days last week, pretty American Astronaut Anna Fisher was the hit of Vienna. In Austria for the Second United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (Unispace 82, for short), the pert, 33-year-old physician, who has been training for a shuttle flight and may become one of the first American women in space, attended parties and even lectured to children at the Vienna planetarium. At week's end, however, Fisher's star was eclipsed by a 34-year-old acrobatic pilot and parachutist named Svetlana Savitskaya, who blasted off with...
Watt's basic plan for leasing the Outer Continental Shelf has been known for more than a year. Late last month he approved a "revised" version of the leasing scheme, offering 25 times the offshore area that has been available for exploitation since the program began in 1954. Seven conservation groups, as well as the states of California and Alaska, have filed suit to prevent or modify the expansive scheme...
Despite famous outer architecture. Sever has for generations been criticized for its banging steam pipes and poor acoustics. Those complaints should decrease when the building opens for business again in 1983-84, according to planners. It remains unclear what sort of complaints will arise when students discover that some Tuesday-Thursday classes will begin at 8:30 a.m. this year to compensate for the temporary loss of the Sever space...
Billie Jean King stayed longer. After her record 100th Wimbledon singles match had been played and won on an outer court, King repaired to her spiritual home, Centre Court, fought off three match points against Tanya Harford and threatened to stay forever. "When you think of 100 matches," King said, not to mention six singles championships, 20 Wimbledon titles in all, 22 years at the task, "it makes you feel tired. But I'm not tired. I'm all excited." She is 38. "I'll still be thinking of winning Wimbledon when I'm 100." Heroically...
...current caper revives SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, which Bond supposedly felled years ago, along with its malevolent leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. SPECTRE is determined this time around to gain control of outer space. Its machinations include a wave of hijackings for huge ransoms and the manufacture of ice cream spiked with a mind-bending drug. Bond and the luscious daughter of an old colleague man age to penetrate the organization's 150-sq.-mi. Texas ranch headquarters, only to face death at the hands of killer ants, man-eating pythons and other unfriendlies...