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What happened in that room that summer was, by popular reckoning, the beginning of rock: not its musical genesis (some folks believe that started with the 1951 rhythm-and-blues hit Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston) but its first seismic stirrings into pop apotheosis. Elvis Presley didn't sound like nobody then, and 39 years later, he still doesn't. He didn't simply make his legend, and he didn't merely live it. All rock-'n'-roll mythology started with him and was shaped by him. And for all its powerful sources in the cult of his personality...
...sale of the Texas-based LTV Aerospace and Defense Co. to Thomson-CSF, whose principal stockholder is the French government, raised questions far more vexing than matters of mere national pride. About 75% of LTV's products are defense- related, including such advanced systems as the Multiple Launch Rocket System and the B-2 Stealth bomber. French ownership would effectively guarantee French acquisition of LTV's classified American defense technology...
...telecommunications satellite, from its useless orbit 230 miles above the earth. In a record 8-hr. 29-min. space walk, with the world rolling by beneath them, Commander Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb and Lieut. Colonel Thomas Akers wrestled the satellite into the shuttle's cargo bay and attached a rocket booster that would enable it to achieve its proper orbit 22,300 miles high...
...space. If Thuot, Hieb and Akers had not coordinated their actions exactly, they could have set the satellite wobbling so hard it might have crashed into the orbiter. Had either end of the capture bar hit one of the thrusters on Intelsat's rim, the resulting explosion of rocket fuel could have ripped through the men's space suits...
...satellite in distress is Intelsat-6, designed to carry international telephone traffic. It was launched in 1990 but was stranded 345 miles up -- about 22,000 miles short of its assigned orbit. The astronauts will pull the 4.5-ton satellite into the shuttle's cargo bay, strap a booster rocket onto it and send it on its way. Then four of them will suit up and go outside to try out construction techniques that will be used on the U.S. space station, Freedom, scheduled to be built by the late 1990s. They will also test the "astrorope," a device astronauts...