Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tattle. "If he was alone on a mountaintop reading books about Howard Hughes, I'd worry. But Eddie's no prisoner. He's very social." Nor, he adds, has stardom soured Murphy's work. "Comedy is, after all, timing. And with his career, Eddie's timing has been solid gold...
...Pentagon, allegedly provided information involving an electronic-testing- device contract worth $100 million to a defense consultant who was a close friend. The information made its way to a Long Island firm that hoped to win the contract. In addition, Justice Department officials told TIME that they have specific, solid evidence that former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman last fall warned Melvyn Paisley, a former subordinate who became a consultant and is now a central figure in the Ill Wind probe, that he was under investigation. Based on what is now known, it is doubtful that Lehman will...
...sickening cloud of smoke and debris, signs of vitality were evident at Florida's Kennedy Space Center last week. To the cheers of hundreds of workers, the redesigned 85-ton orbiter Discovery was rolled into the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building to be attached to the two solid-fuel rocket boosters and the external fuel tank. This week plans call for the entire structure to be moved, at a glacial pace, more than four miles to launching pad 39B and poised for launch in late August or September. "The test results look good. The hardware looks great," said Deputy Operations...
...Discovery mission is successful, the NASA schedule will then call for nine flights next year and another nine in 1990. One hitch: there may not be enough solid rocket fuel. The shortage, which will begin next year, is the result of a series of explosions in early May that destroyed a Nevada plant that produced about 50% of the nation's ammonium perchlorate. The compound constitutes about 70% of the solid fuel used in the shuttle boosters...
...even comes up with a gay period for Picasso. In 1898, she claims, during a visit to the mountains near Horta, he fell in love with an unnamed gypsy boy. The high-sierra idyll is padded with imagined dialogue and trills of swoony prose, but not one scrap of solid evidence is given...