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...Falcons game-which would have marked the start of the third week in a 16-week regular season for the 28 N.F.L. teams-play stopped. TV's most popular game show was pre-empted indefinitely. The players huddled to plot union "allstar games," the first conceivably to be telecast Oct. 10 by Ted Turner. The owners huddled to try to thwart that and to consider retooling with renegades and scabs (though a few coaches, like Philadelphia's Dick Vermeil, said they were disinclined to soldier on in the company of the French Foreign Legion). As usual, the first...
Last week Ronald Reagan tried to reach out and touch someone. Dan Rather. The President was alone in his White House study last Tuesday evening watching the 6:30 Baltimore telecast of the CBS Evening News when Anchorman Dan Rather introduced one segment of the network's coverage by saying, "Taken together, Mr. Reagan has now reversed policy and infuriated conservative members of his own party on two scores: first the tax increases, now China." With that, recalls one White House adviser, the President "went through the ceiling." He telephoned Aides Michael Deaver and James Baker...
...more so than on previous flights, science played a major part in the mission. One of the more intriguing experiments, performed in part during a telecast to earth, involved isolating kidney and blood cells by the use of small electrical charges. The technique, called electrophoresis, could be extremely useful in creating vaccines and other biological substances of exceptional purity, and should work far better in zero-g than on earth. As Lousma hovered over the glass columns, Fullerton's bald head suddenly appeared upside down in a corner of the screen. "That must be the vampire coming after...
Some of the bugs in the shuttle did not catch the astronauts by surprise. During a midweek telecast, Lousma and Fullerton unveiled a cage full of insect passengers, three dozen caterpillar moths, house flies and honeybees. They were on board at the suggestion of Todd Nelson, 18, of Rose Creek, Minn., winner of a nationwide contest for high school students. The object of Todd's experiment: to determine the flight characteristics of various types of insects in zero-g. The bugs did not seem to get the idea. Except when their plastic containers were jostled by the astronauts, they...
...government blamed the Gdansk upheaval on the Reagan Administration's increasingly strident criticism of martial law. In particular, they attacked the U.S.-sponsored telecast Let Poland Be Poland, which was beamed by satellite to at least 50 countries last week. Complained Warsaw's party daily, Trybuna Ludu: "It is not by accident that the street demonstrations in Gdansk coincided with the so-called Solidarity Day [Jan. 30] proclaimed in the United States...