Tidbits & Outrages
Tidbits & Outrages Several Valedictorians Called the Survey Misleading As a part of the celebration of its 25th reunion, Yale’s Class of 1955 distributed questionnaires to its members, inquiring...
...Here’s the latest from Mike Toner of fie Miami Herald: “CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-More than a year ago, the space shuttle orbiter Columbia, still sporting the incomplete patchwork of heat-resistant tiles that earned it the nickname ‘ugly duckling,’ arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to undergo final preparations for its maiden voyage into space...
...In Fact, no one should ever see the typewriter...
...We’ve already put on more than 30,000 tiles, but there have been some weeks that we’ve had to take off more than we installed,’ said Kenneth L. Kleinknecht, the bespectacled NASA engineer who oversees the final assembly...
...It in- :ludes pertinent advice Ibout: Office politics: “If you -ind it easier t o use a .ypewriter, go ahead, but never let anyone see you...
...The book is written by Steven Woodward Naifeh and Gregory White Smith...
...For NASA and an estimated 1,200 blue-suited, white-gloved technicians at the sprawling space center, the nightmare has become a 24-hour-aday, sevenday-a-week reality...
...4~- cording to the Jordan Information Bureau, Jordan’s postal service handled 4i,335,175 pieces of mail in $25 &on...
...Home: “No matter how much time you spend at the office, on vacation, or out on the town, sooner or later you have to come home...
...Cars: “For style, nothing matches a Mercedes-Benz...
...They’re so common among high-level executives, it’s almost a condition of employment...
...The latest self-help book s Moving Up in Style: The Successful Man’s Guide to Impeccable Taste...
...And workers installing the new tiles have damaged more than 9,000 of the tiles already in place...
...The National Aeronautics and Space Administration expressed confidence that installation of the remaining 8,000 ceramic-coated tiles would be completed by mid-July 1979...
...It often takes one worker a week to put one tile in place...
...Throughout the last year, new structural tests of the shuttle have pinpointed thousands of tiles that needed strengthening or replacement...
...The team a t the Cape has been licking and sticking them at the rate of nearly 700 a week, but the engineers are finding almost that many to take off,’ says NASA Associate Administrator John F. Yardley...
...The shuttle would fly before the end of the year...
...Both are graduates of Harvard Law School...
...Despite more than two million hours of work on the Columbia’s thermal protection system, NASA says that it is still 8,000 tiles short of completing the task...
...Tozeq, Only Lost Money on The Letters mt went Off What d o the Jordanians know that ~e don’t...
...BLEST BE THE TILE THAT BINDS Remember our April story about the space shuttle project...
...I 19?9, with a net p O $ z of...
...Close the i o o r while you’re doing It...
...Today, 14 months after it arrived at its Florida launch site, the winged spacecraft is still earthbound, surrounded by scaffolding and an army of busy spaceport workers...
...One third of the class answered that they had ranked in its top quarter...
...If you have pangs of conscience, buy a Mercedes diesel...
...Installation of even one of the 30,992 tiles that will protect the Columbia from the searing heat ofre-entry is a long, exacting process of machining, fitting, trimming, curing, gluing and testing...
...All the Rights, Privileges, and Responsibilities Pertaining Thereonto...
...Tidbits & Outrages Several Valedictorians Called the Survey Misleading As a part of the celebration of its 25th reunion, Yale’s Class of 1955 distributed questionnaires to its members, inquiring about, among other things, their class standing...
...The last year at the Cape has, in fact, acquired the aura of a nightmare...
Vol. 12 • September 1980 • No. 7
