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Ronald Reagan has been in the office almost as long as Kennedy. It is fascinating, though complicated, that the youngest elected President, who occupied the White House for the shortest (elected) term since Warren Harding-and who had a problematic tenure, very much a learning process and a mixed bag of one fiasco and many missteps and some accomplishments-should be thus elevated, by the force of his presence, his vivid charm, to the company of the greatest Presidents, as if the inspirational power of personality were enough for greatness. Perhaps it is. Many Americans make the association. Yet what...
Captain Lindbergh took the shortest route to Paris-the great circle-cutting across Long Island Sound, Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, skirting the coast of Newfoundland. He later told some of his sky adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began to see icebergs. . . . Within an hour it became dark. Then I struck clouds and decided to try to get over them. For a while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy...
...main Harvard undergraduate libraries have extended their hours from 12 mid night to 1 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday, but despite the change. Harvard remains the Ivy League college with the second shortest library hours per week...
...eighth mission of NASA'S Space Transportation System, known as STS-8, is scheduled for Aug. 30 at 2:15 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, just two months after Challenger's historic flight carrying the first American woman into space. That is the shortest turnaround time yet between shuttle flights. This time there will be three more firsts: the nighttime launch, a nighttime landing and the presence in the crew of a black astronaut...
Both inside and outside the boathouse, Harvard's captain acts in the interests of his performance, but then no one else on the team has had to overcome Rogers's disadvantages. The lightest oarsman in the boat and the shortest by several inches, the Eliot House resident makes up in technique and hard work what he lacks in size. Rogers is generally acknowledged to have the smoothest blades man ship of the team, an oarsman devoted to his craft...