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...Crimson team ran away with the Men's Intercollegiate Squash Racquet Association (MISRA) six-man championship in Annspolis. Md. Over the weekend, winning two of the three division, and finishing second in the third class...
...six-man MISRA title is more complicated. The tournament is divided into three classes, with two players from every team in each class. The players gain a point for every match they win as they advance through the field. A loss knocks them out of the tournament...
...toward the rear of the main cabin. They reached out and tugged at a hatch that would lead them to the shuttle's cargo bay. To their surprise, despite several minutes of huffing and pulling, the door refused to budge. Not until the muscle power of the entire six-man crew, the largest group ever to fly in space, was applied to the balky hatch did it finally swing open, permitting the astronauts to enter their $1 billion orbital laboratory...
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...
...much of last week soliciting support from reluctant Philippine businessmen, at one point reportedly threatening, "If things get messy around here and there is hyperinflation, you might see happening here what happened in Mexico and Argentina-nationalization of the banks." He did agree to add independent members to the six-man, pro-government commission investigating Aquino's murder. But from his opponents the message remained the same, that Marcos should resign...