Word: pads
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...carrying a spy satellite may not be damaging, but future shuttle payloads may include Star Wars technology that is a far more sensitive secret. Already one-fifth of the next 70 shuttle missions have been booked by the military. The Air Force has even built its own secret launching pad for military shuttles at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, scheduled for its first launch...
Kathryn Sullivan, 33, the first American woman to walk in space, on the relative risks of rocket flight and driving in Texas: "Driving on the Houston freeway is more dangerous. I'll take my chances on the launch pad...
...knows? But now, in the title novella, we see where the question leads. The narrator, a blocked writer, has moved from his wife and his comfortable home in Connecticut to a Greenwich Village pad. He can't write in the burbs, can't stand the entanglement. Can he write in the Village? Well, he's trying, but his roiling thoughts won't order themselves tamely and obediently into fiction. There he sits at his desk, staring idly out of the window, listening to his middle-aged frame creak, finding a suspicious bump on his scrotum, brooding...
...most recent calendar rage, however, has virtually no pictures at all. The fat little memo-pad-style, day-at-a-time calendars work on words. At least half a dozen companies produce a variety of them, including one called Murphy's Law (Price/Stern/Sloan) and others for sports trivia, Bible verses, computer terms, astrological signs and even dirty jokes. The 365 new-words-a-year calendar (Workman) made both lists, with offerings like "Dionysian . . . recklessly uninhibited; frenzied." The success is in the format, says Publisher Peter Workman. "Each day they entertain, surprise and educate, like books you can savor piece...
...course of four years." Indeed, the President's advisers early in the year estimated the hardcore anti-Reagan vote at 40% of the electorate; that and the fact that more people still identify themselves as Democrats than as Republicans seemed to give any prospective opponent a launching pad for a strong challenge...