Word: flightly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...contrast to Corrigan's nearly flawless play, fellow sophomore Lisa Harrison was obviously not on top of her game. Throughout the first two games, Harrison made repeated unforced errors. Against Karrinne Tong, Bowdoin's only top-flight player, she couldn't afford any. Tong took advantage of every mistake, often catching Harrison far out of position. Harrison's corner shots, which might have befuddled a lesser player, didn't faze Tong, who returned many for winners en route to a 15-9, 15-10, 7-3 lead...
...equally impressive is the Mars Rover being built by CalTech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which will be able to wheel itself about on the rugged planet, look at rocks with its TV eyes and dig up samples with its shovel. Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., now are working on a robot that will be able to take off from the space shuttle, reach an ailing satellite in orbit and repair it. The Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., similarly, is building a robot that can be sent out aboard an unmanned...
Ever since the Soviets began making the 6,000-mile flight from Murmansk to Cuba in 1966, they have strayed across the ADIZ more than 100 times, usually deliberately. Their purpose: to measure the time it takes the U.S. aircraft to respond. Electronic tapes monitoring U.S. radar frequencies are then taken back to Moscow for analysis. Even military slang words like "Judy," meaning target sighted, or "no joy," for missing a target, are studied intensively by the Soviets, just as the Americans record and examine every move made by the Soviets...
...from a "media corporation of international reputation, definitely not a scandal sheet," in exchange for exclusive story rights. LIFE has offered to pay the airfare to the reunion for the five brothers and sisters of Hostage James Lopez of Globe, but with no strings attached. Keough has accepted a flight to Wiesbaden from Boston's NBC affiliate, WBZ-TV. The Boston Globe blasted that as "checkbook journalism." Keough fought back by temporarily refusing to talk to the Globe, cooperating instead with the rival Herald American...
...possible. In the past year the average U.S. airfare has gone up 26%. Restrictions on the discounts that remain are being tightened. To take advantage next January of the cheapest Eastern round-trip ticket between New York and San Francisco at $475, travelers will have to book their flight 30 days in advance. The regular fare...