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...shuttle program also must pass another key propulsion test before Discovery can be certified for flight: a fullscale firing, the fifth in a series, of the redesigned solid fuel booster rocket at the Morton Thiokol plant in Utah. It is scheduled about August...
...sense, as I told you, I am indifferent to the fate of this literature. In another sense, my love of order makes me resent the way in which inanimate things survive their uses!" Edith Wharton, then 47, was referring to her love letters in the possession of Morton Fullerton, a charming rotter who alternately pursued and ignored her. She was also, and none too subtly, trying to make her unpredictable suitor do something -- anything. But Fullerton did not send back his married lover's mail, then or later, after the affair had finally sputtered out. In 1980 some...
...other end of the political spectrum is Carlos Morton, 40, a didactic, polemical, yet often fiercely funny Texan. Born in Chicago, Morton spoke only Spanish until age five, then adopted English. Frequently uprooted to such places as Panama and Ecuador because his father was a career military man, he now teaches at Laredo Junior College, a few blocks from the Mexican border...
...Morton's The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales is seemingly calculated to rouse the audience from their seats directly into a protest rally. The framing story is the trial of a brutal, ignorant police chief in rural Texas for the killing of a young Chicano suspected of burglary. Morton's other plays mingle reality and daffy fantasy, human characters and cartoonish stereotypes in order to teach -- or preach -- the Hispanic history of the Americas. Says he: "I've seen the glaring difference between the First World and the Third World, and it weighs heavy on my soul...
...major milestone in the shuttle's flight readiness will come in mid-July, when Discovery's three modified main engines will be fired in unison for the first time. A few days later will come the final test of a booster by Morton Thiokol, the builder. Some of the three synthetic-rubber O rings (increased from two on previous rockets) that seal the booster's joints will be purposely flawed to see how well the rings can prevent the kind of leakage that triggered the Challenger explosion. Based on the outcome of the tests, NASA will decide on a precise...