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...been utterly ignorant of aerodynamics. ("Wilbur, why don't we put some little wings on that silo?" "Let's give it a try, Orville.") Actually, the space shuttle brings to mind a bloated, brick-covered DC-9, except that when "stacked" (as the space people say) on the launch pad with its enormous fuel tank and two crayon-shaped rocket boosters, it forms a surreal ensemble that could easily be passed off as the Intergalactic Hilton in a hokey sci-fi movie...
...Columbia looked gorgeous, nothing less, to its creators who watched?along with the first scheduled pilots, John Young and Robert Crippen?as it lumbered onto its pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral one chilly day last week. Said NASA Director Robert Frosch: "We are now at the threshold of a new capability to investigate the universe...
...Herbie wasn't at the tables this night, he was sitting in a bar with a pad of paper, a pen and some index cards. It took me a little while before I remembered, and then it hit me. More than anything else--although I'd better exclude his wife and kids in case they read this--Action Herbie loves to bet pro football...
...week, on the second anniversary of default, the city council voted to put that proposal, even though voters defeated it in November, back on the ballot in February. Says Voinovich: "I feel like one of those rocket ships that are ready to take off. We're on the pad, but we need some fuel...
...election eve, calling on all his skill in the medium he uses best, Reagan delivered a superbly moving half-hour TV speech. He called a roll of patriotic heroes from John Wayne to the three astronauts killed in a launch-pad accident, asked the voters "Are you happier today than when Mr. Carter became President?" and said, in relation to the U.S. role in the world, "at last the sleeping giant stirs and is filled with resolve-a resolve that we will win together our struggle for world peace." It was the kind of speech hardly another living politician would...