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...great British stage names of the 20th century: Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness and Ashcroft among them. Then, from 1963 to 1976, it served as the first home of Britain's National Theater. Thereafter it declined into a mere booking hall, just another space where a producer might launch a commercial production. Now Miller and the theater's owners, Toronto Businessman Ed Mirvish, 73, and his son David, 43, are seeking to bring back the glory days of the classics. Their goal: a commercial troupe to rival in quality the two huge subsidized London ensembles, the National and the Royal Shakespeare...
...hellish orange-and-white fireball that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean two years ago this week, killing seven crew members and shutting down the U.S. manned space program. Pressures to launch had led to what the Rogers commission later called NASA's "silent safety program," in which defects were overlooked and engineering cautions brushed aside. Yet as NASA and its many contractors now rush to correct the ! shuttle's potentially fatal weaknesses and resume launches by July, there are signs that the lesson of the Challenger tragedy has not been wholly heeded...
According to Rodney, NASA has established closer communication with the astronauts on safety issues, correcting one of the Rogers commission's major criticisms. But two of the astronauts scheduled for the next launch said they had not even been given the safety-review committee's stern report...
Budget realism becomes the test as the candidates stake out positions on taxes, trade and Social Security. -- Once again, Ronald Reagan will ask for a line- item budget veto. This year, more in Congress are listening. -- Eager to launch a refitted shuttle, NASA' S contractors have let the schedule override safety concerns. -- In Utah, polygamists defy police in a log cabin siege...
...good reason to be sensitive to charges that Soviet submarine technology has grabbed the lead. As naval exercises repeatedly demonstrate, a battle for control of the seas would largely be fought underwater. The U.S. Navy wants the Seawolf to track and destroy Soviet missile submarines before they can launch their deadly cargoes, and to neutralize Soviet attack subs before they can sink the U.S.'s vital missile-launching Trident fleet...