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...sophisticated communications satellites. At week's end, NASA still could not explain why Western Union's Westar VI and Indonesia's Palapa-B2 had failed to achieve orbit, except to say that their rocket motors had apparently shut down prematurely before completing their scheduled 85-sec. "burns." The prime suspects are the bell-shaped nozzles from which the boosters' flaming gases are expelled. McDonnell Douglas, builder of the rockets, is assembling a board of inquiry to look into the twin failures, which left the satellites far short of their intended orbits 22,300 miles above...
After setting the 1,500-meter world record, Enke, 22, was penciled in for all four available golds, even for the 3,000-meter race, which she is not yet certain to skate. But a teammate, Christa Rothenburger, trimmed her by .08 sec. over 500 meters. The snow was thick enough almost to constitute fog, and the spectators were limited practically to those involved, plus a few enthusiastic Dutchmen and flag-waving Japanese. Paired with a slower skater, Enke had to rely on her own metronome, and it must have been off slightly. Still, the sensation of winning and then...
Network executives, while cautioning that it was too soon to tell, conceded that ABC might provide "make-goods" to sponsors who paid $225,000 per 30-sec. commercial in prime time. Said ABC Vice President George Newi: "If ratings are off significantly, we would probably take care of our customers. But an American hero in there would pick things...
Compared with coal burners, nuclear power plants generate little waste. A 1,000-MW coal-fired facility produces 30 lbs. of ash per sec., which comes to 423,040 tons a year, or enough to fill 2,568 trailer trucks. The waste from a nuclear plant of the same size would fit into a refrigerator...
...heels of one of its biggest wins in recent history--a 79.71 win over Columbia Friday night--the Crimson dropped a last sec and 62.60 thriller to Coronal in Ithac, N. Y. The loss dropped Harvard one game back in the Ivy standings, (See Story, Page nine...