Word: ron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cliff Sheehan exhibited his six million dollar kick twice on Sunday. After finishing a disappointing third in the 3000 on Saturday ("I didn't have enough guts to stay with the pace," he said), Sheehan was hungry for a win. And he twice feasted on Navy's Ron Harris...
...unlikely bunch consists of the Countess and her husband, Count Yerblessings (Ron Duvernay) and their liege Sir Vance Entrance (David Chase, who also wrote the rollicking score) and his wife Rhea Entrance (Adrian Blake). Plus their two ill-matched offspring, engaged to be married: Chrysler le Baron (Erick Neher) and Ethel Alcohol (George Zlupko). Chrysler, to put it mildly, is a disappointment to his amazon mother. And even his father gets exasperated with his poetry spouting and inability to dig warfare: "Chrysler, why can't you be more like Rambo?" Ethel's not much help. She's busy with...
...Sposato, a Framingham high school teacher. At Temple Israel in Akron, Governor Richard Celeste of Ohio told Judy Resnik's parents and friends, "She knew she would be at home in space. And she was. And she is." At North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, where Ron McNair studied physics, the choir sang old spirituals, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a fellow alumnus, told the congregation that McNair "belongs to the ages...
...odds. We learned again that this America was built on heroism and noble sacrifice. It was built by men and women like our seven star voyagers, who answered a call beyond duty." After paying individual tributes to each member of the crew, the President declared, "Dick, Mike, Judy, El, Ron, Greg and Christa--your families and your country mourn your passing. We bid you goodbye, but we will never forget...
...first Challenger flight, McNair did not forget his roots; he joked with Lake City residents about looking for his hometown from space. When a stranger asked where he was from, he would answer simply, "Lake City." McNair spoke often about returning to his home state. "As excited as Ron was about the space program," said J.D. Waugh, dean of U.S.C.'s college of engineering, "he felt it was time to put that part of his life behind him. He had two kids, and he wanted to think about what was best for them." McNair leaves behind him those two children...