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DIED. CHESTER LEE, 80, NASA mission director who oversaw the return of Apollo 13 after an oxygen tank exploded in mid-flight; in Washington. The Navy captain helped develop the Polaris missile as well as NASA's shuttle program.
If so, it would be another strike against those Arctic Cats, Polaris Indys, Mountain Maxes and Skidoo Formula 500s--machines whose booming popularity seems to be matched only by the growing number of people who hate them. Antisnowmobilers complain that the motorized sleds, with their primitive but powerful two-cycle...
It might be the prospect of political change in the wind that helps make this new folk sound so bracing. "It's the perfect music for these times," as Neil Young says. Or maybe it's the prevailing staleness of pop and the relentless assaults of rap. In any case...
Among the more creative schemes: Beach had the government procure a refurbished World War II PT boat and dock it on the Potomac at the Washington Navy Yard. Eisenhower would be rushed by limousine -- one of two onyx-black Cadillacs with a tank engine under the hood -- to a prearranged...
No city better symbolizes black political success than Atlanta. Nearly every important elective office -- mayor, Congressman, 12 of the 18 seats on the city council -- is occupied by an African American. Unlike most of the declining industrial centers where blacks have seized control since the '60s, Atlanta is a thriving...