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...Harvard's only gold in individual competition, winning the 1-meter contest with a score of 486.9. Greene trailed Penn State's Elizabeth O'Keefe after four dives, but received the best scores of the evening with her fifth dive, an inward one-and-a-half somersault in the pike position...
Richard Demar is a pedestrian's nightmare. Dressed in torn jeans and a partly shredded brown parka, he zigzags down a crowded sidewalk near Seattle's popular Pike Place Market. One hand clenched in a fist, the other clutching a Styrofoam cup, Demar, 32, looks fierce and menacing as he stumbles along, working the crowd. "Got some change, man?" he half demands of an elderly gentleman who promptly escapes into a store. Farther down the block, he fixes his glassy gaze on a well-dressed woman toting a shopping bag brimming with gifts. "Come...
...enforce than previous ordinances. Precisely, say critics, who contend that the crackdown on aggressive panhandling is merely an excuse for the city to make the homeless less conspicuous. "Sure, no one likes to deal with folks lying all over the sidewalks," says Joe Martin, a social worker at the Pike Market Community Clinic. "But the question is, Why are they there...
...twin failures at Morton Thiokol raised new congressional complaints about the troubled contractor. The comparative Soviet success in manned space flight worried other experts. Declared John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists: "The Soviet cosmonauts got a big boost on their way to Mars. They know where they're going...
...approach orbiting objects and test for the radiation given off by nuclear devices. But the new satellites will have a harder time establishing the presence of space-based lasers and particle-beam weapons like those proposed as part of President Reagan's Star Wars missile defense initiative. Says John Pike, a space-technology expert with the Federation of American Scientists: "Effective verification of space-based defense virtually requires cooperation from the Soviets...