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Vice President Bush had traveled to Moscow to affirm President Reagan's new commitment to improved superpower relations. He went into his private meeting with Chernenko wearing a tiny lapel pin from the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council that showed crossed American and Soviet flags. Bush described his 30-minute chat as "very tempered, very reasonable" and noted that he was returning home "with a certain sense of optimism." According to the Vice President, Chernenko seemed self-assured and responded without using notes. "Mr. Chernenko conducted the meeting without turning from right to left for assistance," said Bush...
...move its "wrist." The problem effectively scuttled the plan to lift SPAS out of the cargo bay and rotate it slowly in space at the end of the arm. While SPAS simulated Solar Max's spin, McCandless was supposed to attach himself to it with a specially designed pin. Unable to cure the arm's ailment, however, the astronauts could do no more than practice the maneuver on a nonrotating satellite. When McCandless gunned the jets on his MMU, the pin held firmly in place, and a pleased Mission Control insisted that the test demonstrated the feasibility...
Though many of the questioners tried to pin Shepard down to descriptions of his own work, Shepard--as he has done in the past-refuses to be categorized. "I've got nothing to say," says the humble Shepard. He explains that the motivation for his work is not to convey any specific message, but varies from play to play...
...equipment makers pin their dollars on Olympic medals...
Council insiders said they expected Lyss to have little problem maintaining a majority in Sunday's election "there's nothing Greg's done wrong that you can really pin him down on," Melendez said last week...