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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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