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...memorable scenes from the second half of the book is his portrayal of a teleconference which took place the night before the launch between engineers at Morton Thiokol, makers of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters, and NASA officials. Thiokol's engineers spent almost an hour explaining why they believed that cold temperatures at Cape Canaveral would impair the performance of their now infamous O-rings. The Thiokol engineers voted unanimously to recommend against launching...
...public buildings, including stores, banks, schools, hospitals and offices, as well as in taxis and limousines. Restaurants with seating for more than 50 customers will have to provide a no-smoking area of up to 70% of capacity. (Bars, however, can retain their smoky ambience.) Says Council Chairman Morton P. Hyman, a reformed two-pack-a-day smoker: "We hope to save lives...
...overseers felt that if they were going to help clean the kitchen, they were going to have to help make the soup," recalls Yale history professor John Morton Blum '43, a former member of the Harvard Corporation...
...Craig Morton, Denver's Super Bowl quarterback of 1978, a former associate of Roger Staubach's in Dallas, calls Elway "simply the best quarterback I have ever seen." As Morton viewed it, the push then to the overtime field goal, which devastated Cleveland, 23-20, was an inevitable extension of the storied drive. At every Bronco stall afterward, the moral was the same. "I knew if anyone could do it, it was us," said Place-Kicker Rich Karlis. "We have John Elway." "When you have John Elway," Bishop said, "anything is possible." "Anytime you have John Elway," said Reeves...
...Khashoggi began to spread his wealth into other investments -- banks, fledgling high-tech companies, farms and ranches -- his attorney Morton MacLeod tried to create a corporate organization for his enterprises. It did not work. "We were thinking of corporate organizational structures, operating capital and bottom-line earnings," says MacLeod. "He's thinking more in % terms of people, relationships, alliances." Khashoggi is not an administrator. Instincts guide him; details do not concern him, and he leaves them to his aides...