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...Cardiology Research Center. American specialists got their first view of the buildings' endless white corridors and advanced diagnostic equipment last year, shortly after the new medical complex opened, when the Soviet Union played host to more than 5,000 physicians from around the globe, who were attending the Ninth World Congress of Cardiology. Says one impressed visitor, Harvard Heart Specialist Bernard Lown: "It is a cardiology city." With pardonable pride, the center's director, Yevgeni Chazov, declares, "I don't think there's another institute in the world that has as many functions...
...ninth mission, the shuttle will carry aloft Spacelab...
There are other noteworthy aspects about the ninth shuttle flight. By the time Columbia lands on the California desert 144 orbits later on Dec. 7, it will have completed the longest shuttle journey, one day (and 400,000 miles) more than any previous flight. Columbia's six-man crew will be the largest to fly aboard the shuttle and will include the first non-American astronaut. But clearly the highlight of the trip will be the debut of the 33,252-lb. Spacelab. It represents the first real marriage of space engineering to fundamental scientific research in the manned...
...never received quite the same amount of literary attention that has been enjoyed by many lesser contemporary British writers. So it is a very good thing that Penguin has brought out an edition of his five collections of short stories to coincide with the publication of Trevor's ninth novel. Fools of Fortune...
...field goal last year, blew the Quakers' best chance to get on the scoreboard late in the first quarter. A 28-yard kick, a yard longer than the last one he booted against the Crimson, would mean a 3-0 lead, but he drilled it underneath the crossbar--his ninth miss in 11 field goal tries this season...