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...test devised by a high school student to see if zero-g can relieve the agony of arthritic rats in a mid-deck cage. The astronauts will operate the shuttle's sinewy remote-controlled arm, using it to lift out into space a German-built platform known as SPAS (for Shuttle Pallet Satellite), which is loaded with scientific instruments. More significant, they are slated for a two-day game of tag with a 6½-ft.-diameter Mylar balloon. As the sphere drifts as far as 120 miles away, the crew will use radar and optical tracking to find...
Fielding's Europe 1983 Fielding; $12.95. This is the 36th annual edition of the late Temple Fielding's gentlemanly survey of Europe's palaces, fleshpots and spas. Oldfashioned, with an unabashed dollop of modest sexism (the text refers to Fielding's wife as "my Nancy"), it is written in a style once aptly described as "Rotarian baroque" and infused with a crusader's zeal. Occasionally, there is a pawky sense of humor at work: of Claridge's hotel in London, Fielding observes, "Finding space will be the problem, since it is inhabited by client...
This woman isn't just a model, she's an industry. On television and in print, the cheery vision of Christie Brinkley, 28, sells everything from cosmetics to health spas. In the past six months alone, she has appeared on 20 magazine covers. The Christie Brinkley calendar is about the only serious competition for Garfield the Cat, and Christie Brinkley's Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book is poised to shimmy up the bestseller list. So lest a bit of open wall in a teenager's bedroom not be filled with her image, here comes...
...chief mission will come Wednesday, on the fifth day up. She and John Fabian, 44, an Air Force colonel, will use Challenger's 50-ft.-long "cherry picker," a remote-controlled mechanical arm, to pluck a German-built experimental package called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) out of the cargo bay and let it orbit freely in space. The SPAS is a self-contained laboratory housing eight separate experiments. These involve such potentially important commercial processes as growing crystals for electronic components and forming superfine alloys in the favorable zero-g environment...
...silence onstage was matched by that in the audience, but there was loud applause when an opera official announced that Bulgarian Spas Wenkoff would step into the role. Wenkoff had been hurriedly flown in that very day after Goldberg's cover caught the sniffles. When Wenkoff too seemed unsteady during the third act, the ailing understudy was summoned to the opera house. Nonetheless, Wenkoff made it to the end. It was just as well. "Three tenors in one performance" mused one dedicatee fan, "That would have been the end of the world...