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...Brokaw was the coolest and most lucid of the three; Mission Control's first reference to the accident as a "major malfunction" was, he said, "the understatement of the year." CBS's Rather appeared shakiest in the early going, and his network was the slowest to marshal its resources. "What you have here," said Rather at one point, "is a reporter vamping for time." (CBS's most famous space enthusiast, Walter Cronkite, was vacationing abroad when the accident occurred...
...force. Said he: "A significant U.N. role presupposes a return of stability, a balance of forces and some measure of political accord." In other words, creation of a U.N. peace-keeping force presumes there will be a peace for it to keep, and in Lebanon that is about the shakiest assumption anyone can make...
Bridges. A road, of course, is only as safe as its shakiest bridge. The Federal Highway Administration reports that one-third of the nation's nonfederal bridges and 10% of those built with federal funds are "structurally deficient." That means that 23% of the 574,000 bridges in the U.S. are considered safe only for cars and light trucks. Heavier vehicles have to be routed around them. The cost of repairing or replacing all of these marginally safe spans is estimated at $47.6 billion...
...nation's thrift institutions-savings and loans and savings banks-are in perhaps the shakiest shape of all. Andrew Carron, a Brookings Institution economist, estimates that the 4,000 U.S. thrifts will lose $9 billion between 1981 and 1983, cutting their collective net worth in half, because they are paying high interest rates to attract deposits but collecting low interest on many old mortgage loans. Says New York State Bank Superintendent Muriel Siebert: "I can see 600 to 700 thrifts going down the drain this year, and maybe another 1,100 in 1983." The prospect appears to be causing...
Borg's most difficult matches, oddly enough, have not occurred during the pressure-packed finals of major tournaments. Instead, he is shakiest in the early rounds, "before I have a chance to get the feel of the court, the atmosphere of the tournament, the sense of my game." Ironically, his opening round opponent at Wimbledon is Egypt's Ismail El Shafei, 32, one of three players to beat Borg there. He eliminated the Swede in the third round of the 1974 Wimbledon...