Arm twist grappling shuttle arm tests successful
Astronaut C Gordon Fullerton controlled Columbia s 50 foot robot arm from the cockpit to lift a 353 pound plasmic diagnostic package from the cargo bay during day four of the week long mission. The test, done without a functioning wrist camera, demonstrated the arm s ability to grab and move payloads in space.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace
Cape Canaveral
Fila
C. Gordon Fullerton
Columbia
Fullerton
Canadarm
Mission Control
Merger Will Alter Flights Across Midland Airports
Texas International will add service to Houston and Denver starting April 25, while Continental will drop three Midland Odessa flights to Houston, El Paso and Denver on the same date. Texas Air Corp plans to combine Continental and Texas International into a single entity but keep both brands. The arrangement would occur via a securities transaction giving Texas Air ownership of Continental.
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Texas International
Linda Holder
Houston
Denver
Chuck Logue
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Texas Air
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Plowman
Transac
Georges Bank dry well ends exploration push
The second Georges Bank exploratory well by Shell, drilled 180 miles southeast of Cape Cod, came up dry after 15,568 feet. Exxon previously reported a 14,118-foot dry hole. No oil or natural gas traces were found. estimated regional resources remain theoretical while leases paid total 816 million for 63 offshore tracts.
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Boston
Georges Bank
New England
Shell Oil Co
Zapata Saratoga
Cape Cod
Epicurean delights enjoyed in space
Space shuttle astronauts Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton regained their appetites with breakfast resembling Earth meals. Fullerton ate granola with blueberries and grapefruit juice, while Lousma had eggs, cocoa, and instant breakfast, signaling improved appetite after motion sickness.
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Ike Flores
Associated Press
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Jack R. Lousma
C. Gordon Fullerton
Earth
Fullerton
Lousma
Sally Ride
John Glenn
Mercury
Occidental China coal pact signed
American industrialist Armand Hammer signed an agreement with China to develop the world’s largest coal mine in Shanxi province, a major venture despite rising Sino American tensions. Hammer said business prospects in China were enormous and that the deal would not be affected by diplomatic disputes or arms sales to Taiwan. Occidental would develop an open pit coal mine in Shanxi, 310 miles west of Peking.
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Armand Hammer
China
Hammer
Occidental Petroleum
Associated Press
Washington
U.S
Taiwan
Occidental
Shanxi Province
Digitalis may help only half its users in heart failure
Boston AP report says digitalis, a long used heart drug, benefits about half of congestive heart failure patients. The benefit appears limited to those with a third heart sound, a finding from a Massachusetts General Hospital study led by Dr. Daniel Chia Sen Lee and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. About 2 million Americans have heart failure, with symptoms like shortness of breath and leg swelling.
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Daniel Chia-Sen Lee
Massachusetts General Hospital
New England Journal of Medicine
Robert Arnold Johnson
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