Word: pads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer." Explains Lelievre: "We had been thinking of doing it like double doors, but that was not possible with the story's late closing. I came up with the idea of two single gatefolds bound next to each other, and then I explained the concept by folding yellow-pad sheets." White House Photographer Dirck Halstead was charged with deploying 15 photographers for this week's centennial coverage. He arranged for locations with the Navy, Coast Guard and White House, plus the states of New York and New Jersey. The planning paid off. From the New Jersey side of the harbor...
Grounded by a demoralizing series of failures, the U.S. space program finally got a bit of good news last week. The Air Force announced that a mechanical glitch, rather than a major design flaw, caused its Titan 34D rocket to explode just 700 ft. above its launching pad at California's Vandenberg Air Base last April 18. Loose insulation, the result of shoddy quality control, was blamed for permitting a fatal burn-through. The Air Force predicted that the Titan, capable of lifting up to 35,000-lb. payloads, would be ready to fly again by early next year...
...national pastime's absentminded professor, a slightly bewildered numbers-crunching cult figure who rattles on about such arcana as the Brock6 system, Pythagorean projections and the devil's theory of park effects. The reason is that they find it hard to believe a bearded pseudo-academic, squirreled away with pad and pencil in Kansas, could possibly know more about the game than veteran beat writers, who & regularly trade locker-room gibes with Reggie and Pete and get to provide ringside coverage of Billy Martin's bouts with marshmallow salesmen...
Amid the deepest gloom since three Apollo astronauts died in a gruesome launch-pad fire at the cape in 1967, the U.S. space program has been forced into a long-needed reassessment of its goals and the means to reach them. Not since President John F. Kennedy insisted, just 25 years ago last month, that America should place astronauts on the moon within ten years have national leaders concurred on what the U.S. should be doing in space. "That was the last presidential policy for space," contends former NASA Administrator Thomas Paine, who now chairs a Reagan-appointed National Commission...
...fails because he has done no real reporting. For long stretches of the book, he quotes verbatim or closely paraphrases dishwater-dull documents, never showing that he has done the legwork that would enable him to offer some insight into his topic. As a result, Vigeland has had to pad this book with such things as lists of headlines from The Crimson's front page, titles of memos, lots of names, and idiotic descriptions of office buildings--for example, "The carpet is light blue, and there are large windows in all the outer offices, with more glass on the interior...