Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard's largest faculty, is bursting at the seams with the buildings it owns almost completely filled. And much of the space, empty and occupied, is in dire need of repairs...
...glitches scuttled three scheduled tests. Company engineers are now examining for charring or erosionthe revamped joints that connect segments of the booster. Those signs indicate leakage of burning gases, the problem that led to the Challenger explosion 19 months ago. More stringent testing lies ahead. Still, officials of the space agency and Morton Thiokol were ecstatic. Said NASA Associate Administrator Richard Truly: "We waited a long time to see this...
...Broadway forerunner. Based on a sampling of half a dozen offerings, including two versions of Cats, the verdict is mostly favorable. Sets may be simpler, lighting more rudimentary, and the miked-up sound systems uniformly lousy. The more a show was shaped to fit a particular space and circumstances, the clumsier it looks shoehorned -- or stretched -- into a new configuration each week. But when it comes to performance pizazz, even second-string unknowns compete effectively with first-run counterparts -- and sometimes outdo them...
Meantime, the Soviet Union spends more, builds more and launches more. Soviet cosmonauts have accumulated 12.9 man-years in space, compared with the U.S.'s 4.8 years. Those Soviets have come down with some fascinating reports, such as the discovery that after three months 250 miles up in space, they are so attuned that they can see with the naked eye ships at sea, tanks gathering on a field and, so rumor has it, even submarines under the surface of some ocean areas...
...Space...