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Most of the 48 songs are versions of American rockers or renditions of early Beatles smashes performed in styles that never stray far from the records. There is, however, a Beatles version of an obscure Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas single, a Lennon-McCartney composition titled I'll Be on My Way. It is the sweetest surprise of the package. With a chorus that sounds as simple and sentimental as a child's school rhyme ("As the June light/ Turns to moonlight/ I'll be on my way"), the song shows the Beatles at their most...
Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...
...future scientific work aboard the ship. Some 96 seeds and seedlings were kept in Columbia's cabin to see how they would grow in conditions of weightlessness. Other instruments studied the shuttle's electrical characteristics, the effect of the solar wind and the impact of micrometeorites, stray particles floating through space. One of the most complex of these experiments was a 350-lb. automated lab called the plasma diagnostics package. Held aloft and moved about by the mechanical arm, it measured the electromagnetic fields and charged gases around the orbiter...
...said, as the volcano four miles away. On New Year's Day, guerrillas swept up the back road, firing into the village as they came. Ramón Portillo was killed instantly as the bullets pierced the thin green door of the house. They were only stray shots, maintains his widow Graciela, nothing more than that. But other versions of the story are softly voiced in the village...
...advice seems only to annoy the President. In a speech to the N.A.M. last week, he declared, "I've been a little disappointed lately with some in the business community who have forgotten that feeding more dollars to Government [by increasing taxes] is like feeding a stray pup. It just follows you home and sits on your doorstep asking for more...