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From the Editor's Desk
On Storms, Earthly and Otherwise
This editor confesses a certain sympathy this week for the gentlemen of the Cape, kept from their voyage among the stars by nothing grander than a thundercloud. It is a fine irony that man may design a vessel to repair…
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This Week's Intelligence Foreign & Domestic
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With but five minutes remaining upon the clock, thunderheads over Cape Canaveral forced NASA to stand down the shuttle Discovery, her five-man crew bound for a mission of satellite repair among the stars.
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Weeks into a state of emergency proclaimed by President Botha, security forces press on with sweeping arrests through the black townships, even as word of the unrest itself is now barred from the public prints.
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A ruptured engine and a swift-spreading fire upon the runway claimed dozens of lives aboard a charter vessel bound for the isle of Corfu, in one of the deadliest air disasters yet visited upon British soil.
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With uncommon precision, Japanese engineers have sent their nation's first vessel into the deep heavens, its path set to intercept the great comet of Halley alongside a fleet of craft converging from many nations.
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notices
The self-taught composer, once the most performed of American musicians, has died of a long illness at eight and seventy years, at his home in California.
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Atlanta & the Georgia Frontier Local Intelligence
A sixth consecutive defeat has left Atlanta's ballclub anchored in the second division, with patience among the faithful said to be wearing thin as the season runs toward its close.
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Notable Births & Doings, This Year of Our Lord 1985
- Paul Creston, American composer and educator (born 1906)
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The Assembly Rooms now entering: the parlour
Mrs. Featheringill: I do hear the shuttle astronauts were kept waiting upon the very tarmac by nothing more than a summer squall -- one begins to wonder if the heavens themselves object to being visited.
Colonel Ashbrook: The talk at the club is all of Manchester and that dreadful business at the airfield -- a man cannot help but grip his armrest a bit tighter at the thought of his next journey abroad.
Miss Prendergast: They say a Japanese vessel has been launched toward the comet with such exactness that no correction was needed at all -- I confess I cannot thread a needle with half such precision.
Mr. Huffnagle: One hears the Braves have dropped yet another, and that Mr. Haas dines alone most evenings now -- the whole town seems to have an opinion on who ought to manage the club, myself included.
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