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Indeed, NASA is busily renting out payload space. For $10,000 its salespeople are offering a "Getaway Special," a package for research experiments involving less than 200 Ibs. and measuring under 5 cu. ft. Two early takers: Film Makers Steven Spielberg and Michael Phillips (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) for a project that they are still keeping secret. Eventually the shuttle may be used for far bolder enterprises: assembling solar power satellites that can collect the sun's rays and beam that concentrated energy down to earth; erecting giant antennas that could revolutionize global communications; and putting together...
There are campaign trails, which he traveled for his dad, and there are horse trails, which he travels for himself. Now Steven Ford, 23, son of the former President, has discovered more happy trails: he plays a deputy in an upcoming comedy western called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Has the seasoned rodeo rider had any acting training? Sure, says Ford: "The 2½ years I spent being a President...
...Students see the assembly as a playground for Government majors, and the administration doesn't care what undergraduates think anyway," Steven V.R. Winthrop '80, former chairman of the Student Assembly, says ruefully. His comment sums up the dilemma that has plagued the assembly since its inception--its place in the Harvard community. After one year of existence, the assembly is still searching for an identity and trying to convince students of its legitimacy. Critics of the assembly charge that it lacks both credibility with students and effective input into Harvard's administrative structure--perennial problems of student government...
...study the Engelhard controversy and develop guidelines for accepting gifts and naming facilities. The committee was plagued by internal rifts, with two of its members dropping out, but it did release tentative guidelines on April 11--the same day 300 demonstrators called for the library to be named after Steven Biko, the slain leader of the South African Black Consciousness Movement...
...Steven K. Bailey, professor of Education and Social Policy and President of the National Academy of Education, said yesterday he is "delighted" by the Rules Committee vote. Bailey said he could not predict whether the full House would eventually pass the bill, adding, "the people I talk to in Washington say they think that they have the votes...