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...almost, but not quite, a perfect performance. As the early morning sun glinted off its wings, Challenger came swooping out of the skies like a giant California condor and touched softly down right on the runway's center line. "Great-looking landing," said Mission Control against a background of cheers and applause. About the only thing that marred the conclusion of the seventh shuttle mission, highlighted by the presence of the first American woman in space, was some damage to the shuttle's brakes and protective tiles. Yet Challenger's flight ended on a slightly disappointing note...
...culprit, as Californians gleefully observed, was scuddy Florida weather. When it became apparent in the early hours of the morning on Challenger's sixth and last day in orbit that the sun would not burn away the morning fog and the winds would not chase away the low-hanging clouds over Cape Canaveral, Mission Control in Houston sent up the gloomy message: rather than attempt a first-ever shuttle landing at Kennedy, Challenger would put down on its next orbit (its 98th) on the dried-out lake bed in the Mojave Desert where shuttles have come home from space...
Protected from the blazing sun by umbrellas and hats made from folded newspapers, 500,000 people filled Poznan's Park of Culture for an open-air Mass. Some of them, like one taxi driver who had walked all night from his village twelve miles away, had turned the Pope's visit into a personal pilgrimage. Gathered together, they seemed to represent a cross section of the Polish nation. Sunburned farmers in baggy suits and wide ties stood side by side with teen-agers in blue jeans, wearing T shirts printed with words like KUNG FU. There were aged...
...could love), ten record albums (total sales: 3 million) and four years of weekly half-hour TV programs. Remember Monkees lunch boxes? A Menudo school bag sells for $16. Menudo, in fact, may be the Strawberry Shortcake of Latin American product licensing. There are Menudo T shirts and sun visors, wristwatches and jeans...
Despite Gould's exertions, this June cannot compete with certain earlier hymeneal splendors. The '60s and the '70s were the great epoch of the improvisational, personalized wedding ceremony-preferably performed in a sun-shot meadow, the bride barefoot and vaguely pagan, Chloë going to Daphnis...