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...commanding officer of Challenger was a late bloomer. Born in the rural Washington town of Cle Elum (an Indian name meaning swift water), the son of a railroad engineer, Francis R. ("Dick") Scobee began his flying career unglamorously, as an 18-year-old enlisted Air Force mechanic. By attending night school and enrolling in service education programs, he eventually won a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Arizona that helped him qualify to become an officer and a pilot...
...20th century rumbles to an end, American designers' enduring fascination with Tomorrow has revived. But Tom Swift is dead. This time around, the fashionably conceived future involves a certain cultivated disillusion, a kind of callow, teasing Weimar dread. The thrill is gone...
First TeamPosition Second Team Dexter Skeene, Columbia Forward Lane Kenworthy, Harvard Paul Richardson, Columbia Forward Steve MacPherson, Cornell John Carroll, Brown Forward Kurt Dasbach, Columbia Paul Nicholas, Harvard Midfielder Chris Paggi, Penn Jim Wurster, Columbia Midfielder John Swift, Cornell John Bayne, Cornell Midfielder Mark Prochilo, Columbia Neil Banks, Columbia Back John Schmidt, Brown Ian Hardington, Harvard Back David Kulik, Yale Mark Sachleben, Dartmouth Back James Allard, Columbia Art Lynch, Columbia Back Jack Dies, Penn Jim Cisneros, Dartmouth Goalie Jeff Micheli, Columbia...
Besides swapping tales from the office, the revelers, numbering roughly the same as in five past fairs, consumed 1200 cups of cider, 12 trays of brownies, 70 dozen cookies and 300 donuts, said Food Services Supervisor Andrea K. Swift...
...English novel was born in forgery. Robinson Crusoe never existed. Neither did Lemuel Gulliver or Pamela Andrews. Yet they all left detailed accounts of their lives and adventures, thanks to the intercessions of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Samuel Richardson. As readers grew more sophisticated, authors in England and the U.S. felt less obliged to offer fiction in the guise of fact. But the tradition of the imaginary autobiography has continued to attract notable writers from Dickens and Twain to Salinger and Bellow. In the right hands, the old trick of the sham document can still inspire belief and wonder...