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Long after Pompan and Horne had hit the locker room, Michael Terner and Lion John Termotto continued their grueling see-saw battle. The effective top-spin of Termotto proved crucial as he took the match...
...that separate the now exhausted rockets from the tank. Under billowing parachutes, the rockets swing down toward the Atlantic for recovery by ship and later reuse. Meanwhile, the spacecraft accelerates to 17,000 m.p.h. Eight and a half minutes after launch, its main engines shut down. Other explosive charges spin off the empty tank and scatter its fragments like meteorites into the Indian Ocean. Finally the astronauts fire four more bursts-this time from the two smaller orbital maneuvering rockets in Columbia's tail-boosting the ship into a nearly circular orbit 170 miles above the earth...
...huge size of Harvard classes is getting to you, you might take a spin over to the Brandeis summer school. You are promised an average of nine students per class, and all are taught by regular Brandeis faculty members. The 60-odd courses offered range from theater arts to computer sciences and intensive languages. A full and highly acclaimed pre-med program is also available...
...outcome of the women's competition was less predictable. Biellmann, fourth-place finisher at the 1980 Olympics, is the most seasoned skater of the current crop. She carried the day with a blend of experienced sang-froid and virtuoso spins. In a contortionist move of her own contriving, she grabbed her left leg behind her back with both hands and stretched it high overhead, while spinning at dazzling speed on her right leg. The Biellmann spin is breathtaking, but she lacks the athletic triple jumps that have become the sport's new measuring stick. With the new emphasis...
...last week's World Championships, she was doing well, when, in the closing seconds of her two-minute short program, she fell while attempting a flying sit spin. She skated off the ice in a rage. Her coach, Peter Burrows, understood: "Elaine's routine was clean to the last move, and then she made a mistake...