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y\j& . t News Briefs??i Reagan keeps up on things WASHINGTON (AP)? President Reafgil, sUlT'Cn penicillin to ward off infection froQi hia bullet wound, is keeping abreast of "everything that's going on" while he recuperates in the Whit House living quarters, a spokesman says. Aides are sending the president "a lot of material" to read and sign in his living quarters, where he is expected to spend most of the week while he regains his strength, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said Monday. "He's making decisions that are required. He's kept j abreast of everything that's going on," Speakes said. neagan s personal pnysician, ur. uamei Kuge, said through Speakes that his patient was "doing extremely well." Another chest X-ray showed Reagan's damaged lung continuing to clear of debris from the wound, Speakes said. PSC asked to reconsider (AP)? Southern Bell has asked the state Public Service Commission to reconsider its recent decision that the j company should have a $29.7 million rate increase instead j of the $39.6 million it had sought. Vice President Harry Marsh said, "At the time we filed our case last September, we pointed out that double-digit inflation had broughjt about a need to increase our rates by about $26.9 million annually. However, because of the presidential wage-price guidelines then in effect, we j restricted our immediate request to only $39.6 million." The utility said it was pointing out to the commission that ! trie new rates allowed a return to stockholders of 12.25 percent on their investment. It considers a 16 percent return to be fair and says the PSC order allows a return of just 10.25 percent. ; Today at USC Film Festival - Southern Studies Film Festival presents "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at 7 p.m. at Gambrell Auditorium. Admission is free. writers aeries - spring writers aeries with Reynolds Price at 8 p.m. in the B.A. Auditorium. Reception follows at Gambrell j Roof Garden. Orchestra Concert - IJiiivprsitv Svm I phony Orchestra Concert at 8 p.m. in j Capstone. IIH Film - "The Hustler*' at 2:30 p.m. for 75 cents and at 7 and 9:45 p.m. for $1. weather Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Low in the 50s. High in the 80s. Thursday: Chance of showers. Low in the 50s. High in the 70s. Iraji, n cc Delivery ? 256-0301 M IPIZZAEXPI New York style Pi; ^gwestDejiver^nce^j I! ? Any small i v- - ... . ? ? I, one item Pia j Mmonly $4.29 i 256-0301 One Coupon per Pizz ii Anylmw Hi ?n* ?? n ij, smsamm- only$S?S Hi 256-0301 One coupon per Pte; Space 1:1?, unc lit; CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. CAP)? Columbia did what had never been /)a*>a Tf tiratif aiv\ lilra n Iraf UUI1C C. 11 WC1H up IIAC CI 1 sailed in orbit like a spaceship and then became an airplane, starting its Earthward plunge at 25 times the speed of sound. In fact, when the shuttle landed on the desert runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California Tuesday at the end of its 54t-hour flight, it was a glider? a flying brick? with only one chance to make the rolling stop engineers planned for it. From gettin out of orbit to gettin out of their cockpit, everything had to work right for astronauts John young and Robert Crippen. They proved to be test pilots extraordinaire. Mistake meant disaster. Their dramatic descent to landing was a precision operation. The re-entry was desiagned for this: First, the astronauts turned their sWgtail^ I] Two-year-old Jamie Frasche H vacationing at Myrtle Beach lai RESSl zza I o Campus | *n mm ?bi an* mm m ms ma, 9 f ' ji-,, Expires lE EZia 4/16/81 In I Expires jll s an ip i m 11 shuttle ;ver be At 12:21 p.m. EST, an hour before landing, over the Indian Ocean and west of Australia, they fired their maneuvering engines for 2 minutes, 35 secons, slowing its speed by 1,750 mph. At that point, the shuttle was committed to a landing at a precise and relatively small target. . Too long a burn would have brought them down too soon, into the Pacific Ocean. Too short, and they would have missed California and continued east. As their ship slowed, it was turned nose forward and tilted upward, so that its tile-protected underside could take the brunt of re-entry heat. The astronauts in their seats could see the nose begin to glow. Space agency officials were convinced that none of the critical bottom-surface tiles had come off during Columbia's launch on Sunday. But they also insisted beforehand that no tiles would come off at all? and one lllipi | ip#? ] llisllil i llii^:&& I from Denver, Colorado, practices it weekend. (Photo by Barry Newman Omicron Del USC's national leade invites you to tr Preside Banni T" in honor of all ore presidents and Thursday, / T.nn n / p* Seawell's Re at State Fair i Call 777-7280, or 791-4497 by Ap $8.00 gi Send checks for re ODK, Box 800 1 1 t > aia it ; fore did and a dozen others were damaged on the top side. If there had been a problem during the re-entry, Young and Crippen wouldn't have been able to tell the ground about it. They entered a 15minute communications blackout at 12:53 p.m. jsarr wnen iney nit the upper atmosphere at 75 miles altitude. With the help of a ground-based landing system, the Columbia made its final approach across the California coastline near Big Sur? north of President Reagan's mountaintop ranch. It glided to Earth at 22 degrees, more than seven times as steep as a commercial airliner on a straight-in approach. Just before touchdown, the Columbia passed over its landing site at 10 miles up and made a sweeping Uturn to reduce its speed for a 215-mph touchdown. That's only 30 mph faster than a normal DC-9 landing. II i his Frisbee techniques white ) ??^ ta Kappa irship society j ie annual :ui9 iet janization | leaders Ipril 23 m. * staii rant Grounds 777-1304 | ril 17 to attend iac4> AX2+31. fj sensations to ? I >60, USC 1 1 1