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Brandon Tartikoff s ideas do not always follow such a smooth path to success, but no one is more entitled to celebrate. For nearly five years the boyish but driven president of NBC Entertainment has been trying to write a happy ending for one of the longest-running sob stories in TV history. Season in, season out, NBC rethought its strategy, retooled its schedule, introduced a slew of new shows-and wound up, as usual, deep in the ratings cellar. Asked early this fall if he had anything else to throw in if his new schedule fizzled, Tartikoff replied...
Astronauts Allen and Gardner performed this feat of derring-do not once but twice last week, rescuing another malfunctioning satellite 690 miles away (see following story). All systems A-O.K., shuttle flight 51-A sailed home at week's end to a smooth landing and a hero's welcome at Florida's Kennedy Space Center...
Solar Max had been built with retrieval in mind; it had a grappling pin in the middle of its belly. Palapa-B2 and Westar6 are of the old-fashioned expendable variety, with smooth sides and no handles. The stinger, measuring 64 in. and consisting of a pole mounted on a round base, solved the problem neatly. It would inject an expanding prong into the satellite's rear motor, locking on to it and providing a grip for the wrangler-astronauts. As Allen explained, "It's like opening an umbrella inside a chimney." In practice sessions Allen could...
...Ford Motor. Henry Ford was forced to step down as head of the company at 82 after a bitter struggle, and Henry Ford II had trouble with several heirs apparent before he finally gave way to Caldwell in 1980. The Caldwell-to-Petersen move could be the first smooth transfer of power in Ford history...
These, respectively, are the opening images of two dance theater pieces by Sankai Juku, Jomon Sho (Homage to Prehistory) and Kinkan Shonen (The Kumquat Seed), which have the clear, smooth grace of a rock in a Japanese garden and the impact, simultaneously, of the same rock hurled. Each piece has a rather spindly framework that is part narrative, part philosophical speculation and part rendering of the collective unconscious poised perpetually between rigor and hysteria. Jomon Sho is a plunge into the mythic past and is the more literal of the two pieces Sankai Juku presented last week at New York...