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Born in 1607 to a middle-class, property-owningBritish family, John grew up in Southwark, which,according to one historian, was the "roughest andbawdiest part of London," complete with numerousbrothels, prisons and alehouses...
...m.p.h.. had aggravated the problem. Chunks of ice floated in water tanks laced with antifreeze. Once aloft on its tragic 73-sec. flight, Challenger was assailed by 75-m.p.h. gales, producing, even before the explosion, what one NASA engineer called "an extremely rough ride, maybe the roughest yet." At sea, ships assigned to recover the $25 million boosters were heading for safe harbors as waves broke over their gunwales. All those facts should have been known by launch officials. Yet Challenger was given...
That might have been an understatement. By the private estimates of U.S. officials, the latest round in Geneva ranks among the roughest and least productive in the long annals of superpower negotiations. For the Reagan Administration, which gained substantial political luster in pushing for the talks, the opening session was an ominous reminder that an acrimonious and endlessly drawn-out contest of wills in Geneva could tarnish that luster. A prolonged stalemate might also downgrade any U.S.-Soviet summit to an exercise in atmospherics...
...these developments, taken together, have cast a distinct pall over White's administration. After occupying office for 15 often tumultuous years, the liberal mayor may face his roughest fight ever if he seeks re-election to a fifth term next November. "I will not retreat an inch," insists White. "I will be heard...
...NOTEBOOK Notre Dame's Roberts, who most of the Crimson called the roughest Irish player, is the brother of Harvard aquamen Courtney Roberts, who recently switched from polo to swimming...