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Young crowds respond to limpid, sweet liquid mixtures. Singles now meet in health spas, but many still play the dating game in bars and clubs. A list of their favorite drinks reads like a dessert menu from the 1950s. At 104 TGI Friday's around the country, for instance, it is the pineapple fling (lime Calistoga water and fruit juices); at the Hyatt hotel in San Francisco it is "Remember the Oreo" (creme de cacao, ice cream and Oreo cookies). For guys, it is no longer considered wimpy to order a light beer. Says a Friday's vice president, Gregory...
Jack LaLanne built his brawny business of spas and health products by preaching that "anything is possible through mind and body conditioning." Last week, to celebrate his 70th birthday in Long Beach, Calif., he put on what must be the definitive proof of the power of positive thinking. As a crowd of onlookers sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat, LaLanne, with his hands and feet bound, swam a mile through the city's harbor while towing 70 rowboats, each with at least one person inside. The feat took 2½ hours, but the triumphant human tug emerged from...
...space walkers also retrieved a faulty camera from the aft end of the cargo bay, engaged in a brief and successful tryout of the shuttle's sinewy, 50-ft.-long arm, readjusted a scientific instrument on the big West German-made movable platform called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) and tested some of the tools created for April's satellite retrieval...
...that had been so disastrous earlier in the flight struck once more. The astronauts discovered that the shuttle's trusty triple-jointed arm had mysteriously developed a machine's equivalent of arthritis. It could not adequately move its "wrist." The problem effectively scuttled the plan to lift SPAS out of the cargo bay and rotate it slowly in space at the end of the arm. While SPAS simulated Solar Max's spin, McCandless was supposed to attach himself to it with a specially designed pin. Unable to cure the arm's ailment, however, the astronauts could...
...thrusters fail, a stranded astronaut could be rescued by his partner or even the shuttle. No tethers are used during the lengthy, complex sorties because an astronaut might become tangled in a line. During the space walks, the astronauts will practice snaring Solar Max by hooking themselves onto the SPAS. But this is not as easy as it sounds. In zero-g, obtaining leverage is exasperatingly difficult. For example, in using a screwdriver, an astronaut is as likely to twist as the screw. While they are working on SPAS, the astronauts will hook their feet in a restraint attached...