Word: sheparded
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...post!" they ordered. Tsibliyev repeated his request a few minutes later, and was told again, "Stay at your post!" At NASA, once the sworn rival of the Soviet space program, such an order would probably not stand, not when the pilots being commanded were self-styled cowboys like Alan Shepard or Gordon Cooper. But the Russian program was a different beast, and cosmonauts learn early that the word of the ground is all but inviolable. Tsibliyev, despite himself, stayed at his post...
...Shepard said he and Mishkutionok were not at all offended when they were asked to remove the whip from the routine...
...actors, out on the ice, and we were just acting. That's all we were doing. If anybody was offended we apologize for that because that wasn't our intention," Shepard said...
Many of the performers, including Shepard and Mishkutionok were premiering programs that are to be used in upcoming competitions...
...kids. If just the brightest or most affluent of the poor escape to private schools, the rest will be stranded in a public system even more starved for money than before. "We can't do something that leaves those with remedial needs behind," says the Rev. Lowell Marshall Shepard Jr., a Philadelphia pastor who opposes vouchers...