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...Soviets already have several means of foiling attempts at booster-stage interception. For example, the U.C.S. panel said, the Soviets could increase the power of their weapons' rocket boosters, cutting their burn time from a present average of 5 min. to as little as 40 sec. "We know very well how to defeat these defensive systems," says Henry Kendall, an M.I.T. physics professor and U.C.S. chairman. "We don't know how to build them." Further work on the project, the U.C.S. scientists contend, will destabilize the strategic balance, which depends on both sides being equally vulnerable to attack...
...Sister Marion Irvine, 54, her 5½ years of long-distance running is more than just healthy outreach to the postwimple age. Last December, the Dominican nun covered the 26-mile 385-yard course at the California International Marathon in Sacramento in 2:51.01. Thus by a scant .15 sec., she qualified for the Olympic trials, the oldest woman in the world to make the grade. Sister Marion is now training with her coach to compete in two months at the women's running trials in Olympia, Wash. "I won't win there," she admits...
...looked a little like a young Paul Newman, this West Coast kid with the blue eyes, thin nose and mobile mouth. Ah, that mouth... But he stopped talking for at least 1 min. 45:59 sec. last week. Starting sixth, wearing tasteful white-and-peach candy stripes, he took a great gulp of air, lunged out on his poles and launched himself on arm power down the 51° chute that plunges through the restaurant built atop Bjelašnica to give the downhill run the required 800-meter drop. He dropped into a textbook aerodynamic tuck, fists together...
...with the great grin didn't dare to think about winning even after the race was over. But she ran second behind the fine U.S. racer Christin Cooper in the first run, and after the second, fizzing with joy and unburnt energy, she had taken the gold .4 sec. ahead of Cooper, who finished with a silver. "I was so high and happy, and it was so much fun," Armstrong raved. "There I was, a few weeks ago, still worrying whether I would make the Olympic team, and here I am with a gold medal...
...Monica. "I was crying so hard, I couldn't even see the mountains near by," she recalls. "But I've loved flying ever since." Last week Knapp, who now heads her own charter-plane company in Los Angeles, circled the globe in 45 hr. 32 min. 53 sec., setting a new record for all classes of civilian aircraft. The 23,340-mile trip in a Gulfstream III, which began and ended in Washington, included stops in Moscow, Peking, Tokyo and London. Says Knapp of her aerial feat: "It's the most exhilarating thing I've ever...