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...space team acted as guinea pigs for Mission Specialist Norm Thagard, 39, the second medical doctor to fly the shuttle. He was trying to learn why some astronauts suffer from a form of queasiness known as space-adaptation syndrome during the initial hours of weightlessness. At the astronauts' request, Mission Control no longer publicly discusses medical problems during a flight. But judging by the demeanor of the five during television broadcasts from Challenger, none of the crew seemed to have had a nausea problem...
Taking all this in, Congress nevertheless remained wary of any new pressures, whether from the White House, El Salvador or Honduras, to up the Central American ante. Congressional committees recently cut in half the Administration's request for $60 million in aid to El Salvador, and sentiment seemed to be building for a different, nonmilitary approach. Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington and Republican Charles Mathias of Maryland proposed a bipartisan commission on Central America, similar to the one that helped design the Marshall Plan after World War II. The panel, which would formulate a strategy of economic...
...most of the week in his home town of Gdansk, where he had returned to his job at the Lenin shipyards two months ago after spending nearly a year in detention. When Walesa asked permission from the shipyard management to take a day off to meet the Pope, the request was denied. Instead, a group of policemen turned up at his apartment; in an apparent effort to intimidate him, they followed him everywhere-to work, to Mass, and even, Walesa quipped, "to the lavatory...
...Harvard Summer School 1963 is the striking similarity it uncovers between the oldest American college and the oldest American summer academic session: the bottom line. The same mentality which makes a Veritas diploma among the most expensive in the country can be seen throughout the 156-page document, where request for payment is a recurring theme. Twice, in fact students are offered the option of tuition via inter bank wiring (Account No. 22270045. Bank of New England. Boston Telex: MERNATINT 940191). The Best education in life is, after all, not free...
...last week to press Congress to stop human engineering. Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee has introduced a bill, thought likely to win House approval, that would create a presidential commission to monitor, but not regulate, developments in the field. Gore last week called the clergymen's request for a moratorium on research "a hasty judgment...