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After 84 days aboard the Russian space station Mir-- and a bracing diet of canned Russian perch -- American astronaut Norman Thagard has broken the U.S. space endurance record set by three Skylab astronauts in 1974. Now, he's ready for the green hills of Earth. "I miss my family," said Thagard, who became the first American to be launched on a Russian rocket Mar. 14. "I've got three sons and a wife and two cats, and I like them all and I miss them." Unfortunately, he's got another month to go. One Skylab astronaut, Edward Gibson, today radioed...
...Crimson has published regularly ever since.Courtesy of The Harvard YearbookA group of army trainees perch on theterrace of Winthrop House (above). Studentofficers take a break underneath an elm in HarvardYard (right...
...report contains no major structural surprises. Mostly it has plans for more bulletproof windows in the White House, detailed ideas for sequestering the First Family in secure areas within seconds of any aerial or ground threats, and more surveillance of the White House neighborhood, where terrorists might find a perch to fire something like a portable Stinger missile. There will be constant updating of the electronic sensors and night optics that the guards use. And the coordination between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Secret Service to spot suspicious planes straying into White House air space will...
...leave my comfortable perch next to the Kiosk. I begin to ponder the natural eroding forces of wind and rain that are only minor players in this mystery. Competition between organizations could explain the disappearance of many posters, but as Levine stated, many posterers have "no particular attachments" to any organization. All clues are now pointing to the mean man who ignored me in the morning. My detective skills have been sharply honed by Mulder and Scully from the X-Files, who have taught me that "the truth is out there." And in this case I believe the mean...
...30th. Pilots flew for 10 to 15 hours straight; each trip took about 40 minutes in the air and 10 to 15 minutes on the ground loading up. Marine Captain Glynn Hodges landed at the embassy in midafternoon; his H-53 chopper was too big to perch on the roof, so it came down in the compound. "My troops couldn't believe the scene," says Hodges. "People were climbing fences. It was bedlam. We were afraid of the crowds. We had to wear gas masks, though we saw only smoke, no gas. We also wore flak vests. They were...