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...tears." Although! Kuralt and his crew are married, there is still a sort of bachelor's liberty to it all, and the current vehicle, an FMC, looks like the habitat of tomcats. The seat cushions are misshapen and filthy, the refrigerator contains nothing but beer and soda, the larder has only peanut butter and crackers, but coffee is perpetually on the boil. Kuralt favors the lived-in look: a blue blazer with a burn mark, a rumpled yellow sweater that strains over his stomach, gray flannels worn to slickness. He chain-smokes Pall Malls and eats lunch at hamburger...
Electronic equipment failed, causing the loss of precious experimental data. Computers mysteriously broke down, and a larder of food inexplicably spoiled (although there were enough fresh provisions on board to keep the spacemen fed). Communications links, already occasionally garbled because of a satellite problem, were hopelessly overtaxed. A major difficulty was the zeal of the ground scientists, about 200 researchers from Europe, the U.S., Canada and Japan, who have worked up to five years or more on their experiments. As they bombarded the astronauts with commands, often in unfamiliar accents and at times absentmindedly reversing earlier instructions, the irritation...
Nevertheless, the possibility of an empty larder in the big bad city has occurred to Schubert. Although the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has shown some interest in him, and he has "a few contacts" at New York University, home of a prestigious composition program, Schubert knows that he will have to start very much from scratch. "There are people who are going to help me, but no one who'll produce a show for me," he says...
...afternoon progresses, the visitor is overwhelmed by a cacophony of sounds and a bouquet of smells. A peek into the larder is enough to tickle even the most jaded palate. Fresh foie gras de canard and turbot flown in from France, mallard ducks and wild morel mushrooms newly arrived from Washington State, plump pheasant and succulent little grouse shot in Scotland, live crayfish shipped up twice a week from New Orleans...
...taking steps to stock Poland's larder. Last week the Reagan Administration announced plans to grant Warsaw $55 million in long-term credits to buy and transport 350,000 metric tons of U.S. corn to Poland to help save the country's threatened poultry industry. The Administration also authorized the Catholic Relief Services agency to buy surplus American agricultural products at low prices for shipment to Poland. Reflecting just how critical its food shortage has become, Poland has attracted the concern of CARE, the New York City-based charity that first gained international recognition in 1946 by sending...