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...Somebody from Tampa. She wasn't Cheryl Tiegs, but she was a woman. You were reminded a little of someone else, but that was in another country. You held her hand. She wore your hat. Then she got too drunk to talk to and you left her at Rick's Place, a saloon where Martinez was about to lose control over Seagram's Seven and Seven...
Club Casablanca (40 Brattle St.): From Mexico to North Africa, Casa B's is probably where Rick--that's Humphrey Bogart, for the uninitiated--would hang out if he came to Cambridge. Nowhere she will you lie back in a cushioned wicker chair, whiskey in hand, with a piano player tickling the ivories in the corner of the room. His name isn't Sam, but he'll play it again and again if you want...
...Friday morning, after six days in space and 95½ orbits of the earth, if the schedule holds and winds and weather are fair, Challenger will end its flight. Crippen and his copilot, Rick Hauck, 42, will glide the 100-ton craft to the first shuttle landing on the new three-mile-long runway at the Kennedy Space Center, with President Reagan looking on. Thus Challenger, which was prepared for flight in a record 63 days, will avoid the long and expensive cross-country piggyback haul that followed previous touchdowns on the Western deserts. The price for the convenience...
Sally Ride, 32, astronaut set to be the first U.S. woman in space on the second voyage of the shuttle Challenger, asked at a press conference if she will weep in tough situations: "Why doesn't anyone ask Rick [Hauck, her fellow astronaut] those questions...
...Officer and a Gentleman, audiences everywhere cheered and cried. If the 1940s-style sentiment was effective, the symbolism was apt: the military's "white knight" image, tainted for years by the stigma of the Viet Nam War, has been spit-and-polished. "Things have really changed," marvels Rick Field, a Navy recruiter in Longmont, Colo. "It's back to the days when the troopers are the good guys...