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Palm trees were drooping in the heat of the midday sun and alligators snoozing after a breakfast of fish, when the alien bird swooped down from the sky. Roseate spoonbills and wild pigs scattered as it alighted with a gentle whoosh! on the 15,000-ft. ribbon of concrete beside the Florida marsh. On two previous missions, Captain Robert Crippen had been scheduled to land the space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center, the launch site, and each time bad weather had diverted the ship to Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. But this time, a looming...
...books. He gave the photographs to the company's new magazine, Jane's Defence Weekly. British intelligence sources claim that Morison leaked the pictures out of "patriotism." Morison, they suggested, wanted to publicize Soviet shipbuilding to help the Navy lobby in Washington. Morison's office typewriter ribbon, examined by FBI agents, told a different story. In a letter to Editor Derek Wood, Morison complained that the naval office job was a "pit." Wrote Morison: "My loyalty to Jane's is above question...
...tall white flagpole. He was always worth a story. Perhaps he would tell me the one about his Olympic gold medal, how he had taken it from his neck after being refused service in a Louisville restaurant for being black and had thrown it with its bright ribbon twirling off a bridge into the Ohio River...
...strange arc has raised only questions, not answers. Once gravity was thought to be the sole force shaping the large scale of the galaxy. Now it has lost some more of its supremacy to whatever molded the giant ribbon of gas. Listening to the radio waves crackling noisily from the center of the galaxy, astronomers were sure that the bulge of dust was a maternity ward for new stars. Now the strange arc has revealed itself as one mighty source of those waves, raising the startling possibility that the middle of the Milky Way is a barren womb. Seeking...
...hinted at a softening of his demand that the party pledge itself to abolish the runoff primary system, which in nine Southern states and Oklahoma requires a second primary if no candidate wins a majority in the first. Campaigning in Texas last week, he spoke of creating a "blue-ribbon commission" to study possible reforms in all electoral practices that pose barriers to black candidates and added, "I'm far more concerned about the principle of equity and parity than the strategy to achieve it." On Friday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt said he planned to form...