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Parker, who was treated at University Health Services after the incident with one stitch, said yesterday he filed the criminal and University complaints so the incident will go on Repetto's record...
Determined to get the suits in working order for the maiden voyage of the new orbiter Challenger in January, the chief of the shuttle program, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, ordered a panel headed by NASA Engineer Richard Colonna to examine the suits, literally stitch by stitch. Its provisional finding: "Egregious oversights"-to use the words of one of the investigators-by the prime contractor, the Hamilton Standard division of United Technologies Corp., and by a key subcontractor, Carleton Controls Corp., a subsidiary of Moog Inc. By implication, the report also faulted the space agency...
Muhammad Ali's reaction to losing the first "Fight of the Century" to Frazier in 1971 was to stitch PEOPLE'S CHAMPION on his robe and go about maligning Joe in the black community. That hurt Frazier more than any punch. Ali called Joe "Uncle Tom" for visiting the White House, though that was his own first stop after he retrieved the title from George Foreman in 1974. Whether punishing Floyd Patterson or taunting Ernie Terrell, Ali was never so cruel to anyone as he was to Frazier, whom he termed "ignorant." Frazier simply offended him aesthetically...
...marry Jeanne Redpath. During the four years he labored on his Berlin book, Berger summarized the Korean War for the New York Times Index. As a result, "I remember less about that war than any other." In the early '60s, however, Berger used his library skills to stitch the rich Indian tapestry of Little Big Man. Movie options on his novels have supported life in Maine, Manhattan and Sneden's Landing...
...Kamali drapes a fabric over her own body to see how it falls. She then begins cutting and sewing with the fabric still on her. It is from this master sample that patterns are made. This curious system may well stem from her teen-age days, when she would stitch herself into tight pants, then extricate herself with a seam ripper...