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...squads combined for 47 personal fouls and 32 turnovers in the course of the sloppy game. Holy Cross sank only about 39% of their attempted field goals...
...number on previous missions, the spacecraft remained visible for more than 3 min. as it rose on its pillars of fire into a cloudless sky over Cape Canaveral, undeterred by 90-m.p.h. winds. On the last mission, in July, Columbia's big strap-on solid-fuel booster rockets sank into the sea. This time, after separating from their mother ship, they drifted gently to earth under their large parachutes and stayed afloat for later recovery. As the shuttle cruised 184 miles above the earth, President Reagan sent up his greetings. Commented Columbia's commander, Vance Brand...
...gadgetry. Buying the firm was not Xerox's first attempt to diversify into financial services. In 1968 the company made, then dropped, a bid for C.I.T. Financial Corp. But Xerox's acquisition record has been unspectacular except for one notable failure. In the early 1970s, the company sank $1 billion into Scientific Data Systems, a computer maker that was written off in 1975 as an $84 million loss. Xerox's striking success with its copiers may have stunted the nurturing of genuine management depth in other, related fields. The company's executives talked of developing technology...
...four-masted carrack, which became the vice flagship of his royal fleet, Mary Rose, after his favorite sister. But on July 19, 1545, the willful monarch looked on appalled at Southsea Castle, near the historic naval town of Portsmouth, as the top-heavy Mary Rose capsized and sank in 40 ft. of water while repelling the attack of a French armada. "Oh, my gentlemen, oh, my gallant men!" cried Henry, as he watched some 665 seamen and soldiers go down with the ship...
Sadat next handed me the opening proposal of the Egyptians. As I read it my heart sank; it was extremely harsh and filled with all the unacceptable Arab rhetoric. It blamed Israel for all previous wars and demanded that Israelis offer indemnities for use of the occupied land, pay for all the oil they had pumped out of Egyptian wells, permit refugees free entry to the West Bank, withdraw their forces to the original pre-1967 boundaries, allow the Palestinians to form their own nation and relinquish control over East Jerusalem. When I had finished reading, Sadat said he would...