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...eerily silent orange-yellow blossom of flame suddenly appeared above them, Morse frantically searched through his lens for the speck that might be the separating shuttle, headed for an emergency landing or ditching in the ocean. "Get over to the landing site," he shouted at his assistant. But it was apparent from the cobweb-like streamers filling the sky after the explosion that there was little hope the astronauts had survived...
...week it was 21 million miles from earth and nearly three times as far from Halley's. The little ship and everything on it are built for survival, and with good reason. The dust particles around the nucleus are expected to strike Giotto with such great velocity that a speck weighing a tenth of a gram would penetrate an aluminum plate about 3 in. thick. To prevent damage, the side of the craft facing the comet is covered with a double shield, one made of aluminum and the other of Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests. Even then, Giotto...
Urgently reiterated by television and radio, the prestrike soundings electrified several million people from South Carolina to New England into a fever of preparation. Samuel Speck Jr., associate director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was only summarizing the public apprehension when he said, "There's a roving mad dog out there...
...their purpose an age-old mystery. For the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, there is a different attraction: NASA would like to use Easter Island as a possible emergency landing site for the space shuttle. Under a plan proposed to Chile, which owns the 45.5-sq.-mi. speck, NASA would spend an estimated $11 million to lengthen the 8,500-ft. local runway by about half a mile, strengthen its surface and install sophisticated electronic navigation systems. The U.S. has reached similar agreements with five other countries: Senegal, Spain, France, West Germany and Japan...
...many employers in the private sector continue to practice affirmative action. Says Thomas Hunt, an employment-discrimination lawyer in Los Angeles: "I don't get the type of resistance to affirmative action I did ten or 15 years ago. In the midst of this success, Reynolds is just a speck on the ceiling shooting his mouth off." Hunt estimates that at least 60% of the nation's companies now use goals and timetables. He knows of none that have abandoned them since Reagan came to office...