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...college. Ada Administrator Eleanor Rothman recalls that when the program was first proposed, the faculty expected to receive genteel inquiries from well-to-do women yearning to complete their degrees. Instead, applications poured in from clerks, secretaries, farmers, nurses and switchboard operators. One woman, who worked as an apple picker, wrote in her application: "I am ready to go to school because I need to." Another Ada, Barbara Rosenheck, 46, the widowed mother of four, now spending part of the week in a Smith dormitory, feels as if she is living "with my own daughters...
...picker and chooser of ways and means, he turns a neat trick on a bunch of Chinese by arranging to ferry them over from Cuba to the Keys, accepts their money, then kills their leader and abandons the rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan knows...
...considerable unanimity, police and social workers criticize doctors, particularly in private hospitals, for mending broken bones and cigarette burns on young bodies without taking action to prevent "an accident" from happening again. "In most cases the stories given by parents are not consistent with the injury," says Dr. Annette Picker, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., which handles some 600 cases of child abuse a year, more than half of them sexual. (Children two years old and younger sometimes arrive with herpes and gonorrhea, including oral, anal and genital infections.) Says...
Ride's own chief mission will come Wednesday, on the fifth day up. She and John Fabian, 44, an Air Force colonel, will use Challenger's 50-ft.-long "cherry picker," a remote-controlled mechanical arm, to pluck a German-built experimental package called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) out of the cargo bay and let it orbit freely in space. The SPAS is a self-contained laboratory housing eight separate experiments. These involve such potentially important commercial processes as growing crystals for electronic components and forming superfine alloys in the favorable zero-g environment...
...mission's fifth day, the cherry-picker-like device will be used to play an intriguing game of extraterrestrial catch that could be crucial to the shuttle's future. The arm will hoist a specially designed payload out of the big cargo bay and toss it overboard; then, after the shuttle swoops around the temporary satellite for some nine hours, Ride and her unique arm will try to grapple it back on board. The experiment is a test of the shuttle's ability to retrieve and repair ailing satellites; at least one of those now in orbit...