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...hesitation about speaking out. After completing preliminary shipboard medical examinations, they declared that the trio appeared to be extremely fit-in better shape, in fact, than the returning Skylab 1 astronauts, who were in space only about half as long. The prolonged exposure to zero gravity did take its toll...
...crowd, whom she had kept waiting for 90 minutes, had other ideas. They booed, hissed and hurled insults at her, and the local paper delivered the coup de grâce the next day. "She is old," it declared, "and the complications of her sentimental life have taken their toll...
...strike--the first nation-wide shutdown of Chrysler plants since 1950--ran up a daily cost to the corporation of about 7400 cars and 1100 trucks in lost production for the ten days of picketing. The price was still low, however, compared to the production toll taken by the 1970 strike against G.M., the giant of the Big Three auto companies...
...more feared than cholera, which in past centuries has decimated whole populations. Cholera is endemic to many Asian nations, where sanitation is poor and water supplies are contaminated. But the disease also maintains a tenuous toehold in the West. Last week it was frightening Italy, where the death toll had risen to at least 21, and threatening other European countries as well...
...panic, no one was hurt in Mexico City, and only minor damage was reported. The epicenter of the quake, however, was located 150 miles southeast of the capital. There the shock proved devastating. As rescue work got under way, government officials feared that the death toll, initially estimated at 400, could reach 1,000. The quake also injured more than 4,000 people and left nearly 25,000 homeless...