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Until noon, the country was at a standstill, as millions of Poles downed their tools in the latest-and perhaps riskiest-confrontation with the Warsaw regime. "We don't want to overthrow the Communist Party," Solidarity Union Leader Lech Walesa told fellow strikers at a Warsaw steel mill. "We only want to get rid of the people who are putting the brakes on Poland's renewal." Specifically, he meant the officials responsible for a police attack two weeks ago on 26 union members in Bydgoszcz. Beyond that, however, Walesa and his comrades were boldly challenging a powerful group...
...granted. One sobering fact is that the Columbia, unlike every other U.S. spacecraft, will be launched without having undergone unmanned test flights in space; to bring it back alive, the astronauts must go along on the very first trip. If only for that reason, the launch may be the riskiest NASA has ever undertaken. The odds? John Naugle, NASA'S former top scientist and now a consultant, calls the chance for complete success a "sporting proposition." But Kenneth Kleinknecht, the shuttle orbiter manager, insists that there will be no launch until every risk has been minimized. Says Kleinknecht...
...Commencement approaches. She has generally enjoyed her four years here although a case of mono damped her first semester freshman year. Still, Greis feels little nostalgia about leaving. "It feels good to be leaving, it's a relief. I'm getting psyched for playing golf, this is the riskiest thing I could do. I'm waiting for the real world." Then, a pause. "Sometimes I don't know whether I'll be in the real world playing golf...
...City Opera?as co-director with Julius Rudel, 57, her mentor and director of the company for 21 years. Last week "Good Queen Bev," as Rudel has called her since her smashing performances in Donizetti's royal trilogy (Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena), took on the biggest and riskiest role of her career. Next July she will become the company's sole director: Rudel has decided to devote all his energies to conducting...
Some of the riskiest gambling anywhere is not in Atlantic City, N.J., but in a rough region 75 miles or more to the east. There, 39 companies have anted up $1.1 billion for leases to drill for oil and gas deep under the sea. While there is nearly a fifty-fifty chance of winning at blackjack, the odds of striking black gold offshore are 1 in 10-and there have been a lot of losers. Last month Continental Oil Co., having drilled a 12,000-ft. dry hole in the Baltimore Canyon off the Jersey shore, capped the test site...