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...beginning for a few days and then had left. Could someone come and tour all the farms? Ehrlich sidestepped the question, but said privately afterward, "They want a father figure; that is the system they are used to. In many cases, they know more about agronomy than any technician...
NASA officials had one word for the simulated launch of the space shuttle at Cape Canaveral last week: "Super!" Then disaster struck. For reasons yet to be explained, five Rockwell International technicians removed an access panel and entered a rear section of the orbiter above the engine. A few minutes later, they began keeling over from lack of oxygen. One technician, John Bjornstad, 50, died in a helicopter en route to a hospital, and another, Forrest Cole, was in critical condition...
...sixth technician discovered the mishap and called a security guard, who donned a breathing apparatus that enabled him to drag the five from the compartment. An ambulance speeding to pad 39-A reportedly was delayed by security...
Brutality in Phoenix. Suzanne Marie Rossetti, 26, a technician at a burn treatment center in Phoenix, had attended a performance of Dancin' at Arizona State University. On her way home, she drove into a grocery-store parking lot, and mistakenly locked her car with the keys inside. Two young white men helpfully unlocked the door, asked for a short lift?then forced her to drive to her apartment, where they beat and raped her for several hours...
...leary of higher insurance rates and injury claims-even though in most places the machine is surrounded by hefty cushioning, and riders are required to sign waivers absolving the owners from responsibility for injury. The very prospect of danger can be a potent spur. Peter Szymanski, 26, a computer technician from Gardner, Mass., took such a bad fall at Boston's Celebration that he had to nurse twelve stitches under his cowboy hat. "It hasn't scared me," he shrugs, relishing his moment of glory. "I knew I was going to get hurt. It was only a question...