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...Reagan tried to work it out himself on a scratch pad and came out with 60 miles; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing provided the correct figure...
...test-firing countdown had to be pushed back three times last week. First technicians struggled to purge impurities from the fuel-cell pipes, then to replace a faulty electronic module, and finally to wheel a huge service tower away from the launch pad. Explained Launch Director George Page: "This is our very first countdown for the shuttle, and you expect these kinds of problems." Indeed, the shuttle program's problems have become a kind of national headache...
...called themselves 'Raygan.' " As the group laughs, Reagan scoops a handful of jelly beans from a glass vase and puts them on the table before him. He will eat them, one at a time, as the discussion goes on. He also doodles on a White House memo pad; his genre is comic-strip caricature, vintage...
...last Wednesday. Neither of the two drafts that aides had prepared for the TV speech he was to deliver 41 hours later-his first from the White House-sounded quite right to him. So the President got up in the predawn darkness to scribble on a yellow legal pad, beginning a painstaking rewrite that continued later with the help of speechwriters and ended only five hours before he went on-camera in the Oval Office. Though Reagan rarely carries cash, he made a point of bringing a dollar bill into one session with his advisers, but forgot to take coins...
Wade Lau making pad saves, and stick saves and glove saves. Wade Lau challenging the Eagle forwards like he never challenged opposing forwards in his life. Wade Lau sliding and diving and sprawling Wade Lau culminating his revival from an almost season-long slump at exactly the right time. Wade Lau doing everything he had to do and more...