Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slayton and his NASA coileagues answered the pointed questions, calmly assuring an Australian journalist that Columbia's external fuel tank would not crash and burn outside of Perth, like Skylab two years ago, and responding to a New York journalist by saying. "We are very confident in the crew's training and in the overwhelming likelihood for success...
Moscow's tough talk was backed up by extensive Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland. The war games, originally scheduled to end last week, were prolonged indefinitely. Lengthy nightly television reports gave Poles a chilling view of amphibious landings, mock tank battles and simulated aerial assaults. Warsaw Pact maneuvers had preceded the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia; the message was not lost on the Poles...
...much. They prefer two-or-three-chord junk food--who said rock and roll wasn't about arrested development? Of course the songs on Get Happy!! didn't "breathe"--they were choked with carbon monoxide and tears of boredom, frustration, rage. Elvis was a ferret trapped in a septic tank...He got his rocks off that time, the fury dribbled out, and Trust is his depressing post-coital meditation--no longer an active participant. Elvis watches us all from the stage. Trust, his most objective album, is also his least taut: it breathes, and sometimes it hyperventilates. The songs...
Despite the accident, the space shuttle is still scheduled for launch next month, pending a successful test of its fuel tank. The shuttle has been plagued by technical troubles during its development over the past decade and is two years behind schedule. Last week's tragedy was the first loss of life at the launch site of a manned space flight since three astronauts died in a capsule fire in the Apollo I spacecraft...
...real "tiger in the tank" that keeps the club active is Todd Morrison '81, club president, who began in 1977 to rebuild the team, which had been defunct for three years. Ron Kayten, director of the recreational gymnastics program, said yesterday. Floyd Wilson, director of intramurals and club sports, yesterday praised Morrison's "tremendous energy and drive" which has enabled him to build a team...