Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight was one more coup for Challenger's designer, Paul MacCready, 55, of Pasadena, Calif. Four years ago, the innovative aeronautical engineer achieved an aviation milestone when another of his diaphanous, lightweight craft, the Gossamer Condor, became the first plane to complete a 1.15-mile, figure-eight course on human power alone (generated by a bicycle-like set of pedals). Two years later MacCready's Gossamer Albatross made the first such muscle-powered crossing over the English Channel...
...restaurant north of Boston, cooks celebrate the last day of their work week as Coke Day, sniffing the white stuff from their first order to their last, often joined by dishwashers, busboys and waitresses, who come by for an occasional hit. A more impatient group in Pasadena, Calif.-a cross section of professionals in their 20s and 30s-celebrates TGIW (Thank God It's Wednesday), gathering at the home of a local car dealer for a coke session at cocktail time...
...Pasadena, Calif...
DIED. Max Delbrück, 74, molecular biologist whose pioneering research on bacteriophages (viruses whose genetic matter "invades" or "infects" bacteria) laid the foundation of modern molecular genetics and won him a Nobel Prize in 1969; of cancer; in Pasadena, Calif...
...Pasadena, Calif...