Endeavour Maps New Zealand Area in Space Mission
Space shuttle Endeavour data shows a 19 mile wide zone around Karamea Bight New Zealand at 80 feet resolution. By Tuesday afternoon crew mapped over 29 million square miles of terrain at least once, an area comparable to Africa plus the Americas. Engineers propose several small fuel-saving methods boosting NASA optimism for completion. Astronauts have been using extra shuttle fuel to keep a 197 foot radar antenna mast correctly oriented.
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Secretary Herman Celebrates Valentine's Day With Teamsters
Labor Secretary Alexis Herman spent Valentine’s Day with Teamsters in Atlantic City addressing members at the Tropicana Hotel two days after marrying Maryland physician Charles Franklin Jr. She said a real honeymoon would come in March and that she would be known as Secretary Herman and Mrs. Charles Franklin. The ceremony took place in Washington.
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Bayer Sager Receives Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Amid Rain
Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager unveiled her star in a rainsoaked Hollywood ceremony attended by about 300 fans led by Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor called Sager a poet of the soul as tributes noted her hit That’s What Friends Are For and other credits including collaborations with Sinatra Streisand Dylan and Mathis.
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Muppets Buy Chaplin Studio Move Into Historic Site
The five Henson heirs purchase Chaplin's Hollywood studio for 12.5 million dollars and lease it back to the Jim Henson Co. The 5 acre site includes a 10,000 square foot sound stage and was named a historical monument in 1969. Chaplin’s early films were shot there.
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Bellow Receives Lifetime Award at New Yorker Book Awards
Saul Bellow aged 84 is honored with a lifetime achievement prize at The New Yorker Book Awards held in New York. The event coincides with the magazine’s 75th anniversary and celebrates top fiction nonfiction and poetry of 1999 along with debut and lifetime honors.
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Kemp narrowly avoids juror duty in murder robbery case
Former GOP vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp nearly served on a murder robbery trial at Montgomery County Circuit Court. He advanced to the second round of jury selection but was dismissed after saying he was too busy to spend two weeks on the case.
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Comedian Sommore Charged in Cocaine Ring Case
Standup comedian Lori Ann Rambough, known as Sommore, is charged in a seven count federal indictment in Washington DC with four drug counts. She was held on a 250000 bail after Monday arrest.
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