Word: sts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is going smooth as silk." Thus, with only days to go, NASA Spokesman Jim Kukowski ebulliently described the final launch preparations for next week's flight of the Challenger space shuttle. Lift-off for the eighth mission of NASA'S Space Transportation System, known as STS-8, is scheduled for Aug. 30 at 2:15 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, just two months after Challenger's historic flight carrying the first American woman into space. That is the shortest turnaround time yet between shuttle flights. This time there will be three more firsts...
...most controversial of these projects is the one slated to begin this March. The Niles Company wants to tear down one of the buildings on Mass. Ave., between Plympton and Linden Sts. As a result, three of the Square's oldest establishments are moving and may have to close their doors for good--Schoenhof's and Pangloss. Bookstores, and the Stone street clothing store. Though some development there remains certain, the extent is unclear as the developer is currently doing battle with the Cambridge Historical Commission. If that project goes according to schedule, it should be completed by the summer...
Tommy's Lunch:Tommy Stefanian has been on Mt. Auburn St. between Plympton and DeWolfe Sts. for 25 years. During those years Tommy's has become the top hangout spot of the four after-midnight emporia. People go into Tommy's for different reasons, such as smoking and bullshitting, playing video, and even sampling the treats from the grill. Among the best bets for the palate include the cheese steak ($2.95) and a Western Frappe ($1.80), which to those not from New England is an extra thick milkshake. Tommy's is open 6 a.m.-2 a.m. on weekdays...
...days, extracurricular browsing is a favored pastime throughout the summer In fact, several stores have done their best to install it as Cambridge's second best free evening out, second perhaps only to the Square's street musicians. Reading International, on the corner of Church and Brattle Sts., is open from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. (even later on weekend nights) or, in the words of one saleswoman, "just about whenever you want." A good thing, too, since this bookshop hosts an interesting mix of scholarly and popular books, periodicals and inexpensive classical records, while messaging your ears with...
...fixes smack of quiche eating and for true mustiness you'll have to wander into one of Cambridge's more eclectic bookstores The True Grit Award goes to the Bookcase and the Starr Book Shop (in the shadow of the crane at the corner of Plympton and Mt Auburn Sts) whose stacks of dusty old books will keep you entranced (and perhaps sneezing) for hours. More pristine but not less interesting is the scholarly Pangloss Bookshop on Mass Ave. a haven for would be academics brimming over with learned tomes and obscure journals All three stores are excellent for aimless...