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...meat and the bones of Kremlinology?that Chernenko seemed to breathe at least three times as often as his neighbor on the reviewing stand, Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 75. Later, the new General Secretary was seen to be barely able to keep his arm raised in a salute as crack Soviet troops marched past...
Newcomers, on the other hand, must wait their turn with a patience that tries both talent and dreams. The top rank is tough to crack, for the edge always goes to the headliners. Tiffany Chin, who at 16 was competing brilliantly in her first Olympics, could bask in a strong showing while cheerfully accepting the virtual impossibility of a medal. She had finished twelfth in the compulsory figures, and even with a runaway victory in the free skating while others faltered badly, a silver medal was the best she could have won. Said Chin: "I skated good figures...
This is the last chance for most of the team's mainstays, a team that is not going to the ECAC playoffs this year, a team that turned down a tarnished bid to participate in the EAIAW last year, a team that has one more crack at Princeton on its mind...
...spectacle immediately preceded by the opportunity to watch the HPT producers humiliate a smiling celebrity with Man of the Year honors. (Sean Connery didn't lose his cool when Gail Aidinoff crowned him with a curly black wig and two busty men kissed his cheeks, and he didn't crack up when co-producer Tom Strickler forgot what movies he had been in. The audience did, but that's the kind of thing people go to live presentations...
...space walks, photographed by a handful of color TV cameras, including one perched on the MMU, began on the fifth day of Challenger's flight. Appropriately it was Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, 46, a Navy captain, who got first crack at the $15 million backpack. While waiting 18 years to make his first flight, he has been working closely with the MMU's designers to perfect the complex machine, which looks like a seatless chair and can be steered by controls in its armrests. Each of these controls activates one or more of 24 jets that expel...