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...command cabin, had originally been scheduled to try the arm's gripping apparatus on a fixture in the cargo bay. But the trial was scrubbed because of problems with the arm's hand, known in NASAese as an "end effector." Eventually, the spider-web-like wire snare should be able to capture any satellite equipped with appropriately mated hooks. On this voyage, Truly will only guide the 50-ft.-long arm through various manipulations of its "shoulder," "elbow" and "wrist" joints. If the machinery jams when the arm is extended, one of the spacemen will have to climb...
...Tattoo You, the music is raw, the message is clear and simple. The result may not be as consistently good as it once was, but it's the best you can get: the slicing sound of a slightly out-of-tune Stratocaster dissecting a simple bass line, the snare drum snapping on 2 and 4, and Mick Jagger offering, "I'll take you places you've never, never seen before, yaaaaaah." To love the Rolling Stones is to love rock and roll, because both are just right at just the right time and nothing more...
Seagram has retained two investment banking firms, Lazard Freres and Shearson Loeb Rhoades, in its effort to snare Conoco. Rohatyn and his Lazard Freres staff of only a dozen handled $10 billion worth of mergers last year. Shearson's group is led by Managing Director Mark Millard, 72, who in 1963 advised Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman to buy Texas Pacific Oil Co. for $326 million. Seagram last year sold Texas Pacific to the Sun Oil Co. for $2.3 billion; that money is now providing the bulk of funds used in the bidding for Conoco...
Harvard continues to hold stocks in companies operating in South Africa. Decisions to promote its professors are based not on teaching ability, but on how many books they've sold. Undergraduates here struggle not to learn, but to snare grades so they can attend the professional school of their choice. Tomorrow I will graduate from a University whose axis rests not on higher learning but on elitism and material success...
Kennedy School officials and students this week played down an article published in the Boston Globe, which stated that University officials snuffed out their attempt to snare President Reagan for their commencement speaker. Students denied they had even extended an informal invitation, saying they only inquired about procedures. In any event, President Bok blocked any further action, telling the K-School it would be inappropriate to invite a head of state to its separate ceremony...