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...Control in Houston was a pilot's nightmare. A blinding dust storm, with winds up to 55 m.p.h., was whipping across the White Sands Missile Range, in southern New Mexico. Even from 150 miles up, Astronauts Jack Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton could see the swirl of white powder. "There will be no landing today for Columbia" said Houston. "The situation has degraded...
...kinds of snow abound in Colorado: powder for the slopes and powder for the nose. According to a state survey, a quarter of the people at ski resorts like Aspen ("Toot City") have got their Rocky Mountain highs from cocaine. So it is appropriate that Colorado also boasts the country's only clinic of its type exclusively for coke abusers. Operated by the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, it has been extraordinarily successful in helping people kick the habit. Its principal method? Self-blackmail. The abuser, who comes to the clinic voluntarily and usually in desperation...
...potential crisis of over-crowding in the dining area was averted. Unwilling to spend our precious lunch minutes standing in line, we walked to the nearest bakery, which sells white bread, dark bread, buns with raisins, buns without raisins, and spongy cookies sprinkled with a chalky white powder that tastes like Crest toothpaste...
Bomb squad experts speculated that the blast may have been caused by a small "pipe-bomb," said Cambridge Sgt. Irwin Nolan. He added that with a pipe-type bomb, gun-powder is placed inside a metal cylinder and left with a detonating device at the site of the planned explosion...
Once the defense buildup begins in earnest, this erosion of productive capacity will probably start to pinch. The backlog for aluminum forgings used in military aircraft is expected to swell from 12 months to 24 months by the end of 1982. The waiting time for aluminum powder and other components in rocket propellants, now ten to twelve months, is expected to grow longer. The delay in supplying integrated circuits used in computerized missile-guidance systems is already 80 weeks in some cases...