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...only calls a press conference when he has to, and last week he felt he had to. Too much has been building up. He might ignore a querulous press corps, but not the beginnings of a national feeling that a number of things were coming unstuck. His press conference was only his fifth as President, fewer than any other President in the past 50 years. Of course, such infrequency gives the Washington press corps fewer self-important opportunities to appear on national TV as vigilant public defenders. But some among them also extol press conferences as an inspired device...
Strikes are nothing new to the 160,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America-and neither are contract settlements that come unstuck at the last moment. Such was the fate two months ago of U.M.W. Leader Sam Church Jr.'s first effort to win a new three-year work contract. Soon after negotiators initialed the proposed pact, workers voted thumbs down on ratification by a 2-to-1 majority...
Parked on the desert, Columbia had a decidedly unwarlike look. It survived its journey in remarkably fine style. A dozen or so of its 31,000 heat-shielding tiles had come unstuck during the thunderous ascent. But during its glowing, 2,700° F plunge through the atmosphere, a maneuver that has been likened to riding inside a meteor, not one was lost from the craft's underbelly. Only a few tiles were gouged and chipped, apparently by pebbles and other desert debris kicked up by the wheels after touchdown. After an initial going-over at Edwards Air Force...
...looked in vain for children. He couldn't find them anywhere. There were short people and people under twelve years of ago, but they had no child's vulnerability, no unstuck laughter. They cracked into the M2 buses like terrified bison running for their lives, for fear the school at their backs would grab them and eat them up one more time. It wasn't until he caught the downtown A that he saw what they had done with their childhood. They had wrapped it in dark cloth, sneaked it underground and thrown it all over the trains. Like blazing...
...that's the way it was, according to Walter Cronkite. At least that's the way it was at 10:10 Wednesday night. Within 15 minutes, CBS floor correspondents began hearing that the deal was coming unstuck. At 11:54 Dan Rather's worried voice crackled across the network's internal radio system. "Tell the anchor booth to be very careful," he said urgently. "There's something very strange going on here...