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...That vacant space will be aboard Spacelab 2, one of a pair of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) orbiting laboratories to be flown in NASA's new orbiting space shuttle within the next five years...
MINNESOTA. Democrat Wendell Anderson, 45, was a popular Governor from 1971 to 1976, but then he made the mistake of arranging his own appointment to fill Walter Mondale's vacant Senate seat. It was a self-serving act that angered Minnesotans, and many of them have never forgiven Anderson, even though he apologized in a series of TV ads. At the same time, Anderson's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has been badly split by conservative Businessman Robert Short's upset primary victory over liberal Congressman Donald Fraser in the race for the Senate seat formerly held...
Police said the minors allegedly entered the apartments by cutting the screens over the windows and then popping the windows open. The apartments were vacant at the time of the break-ins, they added...
Today, primary day. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) are up for re-election, and for the first time in three decades, three of the twelve congressional seats are vacant...
...hours later, having replaced the white miters with red birettas, the Cardinals reassembled to begin making that decision. Promptly at 4:30 on Friday afternoon, Jean Cardinal Villot, Camerlengo (Chamberlain) of the vacant Holy See, gave a signal and the 70-member Sistine Chapel choir started to sing Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Holy Spirit). The Cardinals then filed into the Sistine Chapel. There, beneath Michelangelo's great fresco The Last Judgment, they seated themselves on facing rows of plain chairs at twelve long tables. There were too many Cardinals this time to accommodate them with the traditional canopied velvet thrones...