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June 29, 1982
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Tuesday
1U CO-OP STUDENT ASSOCIATION There will be a
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ITERSKI CLUB:Anyone interested is invited to a general
Meeting at 7 p.m. in 305 Rudder.
JNG CONSERVATIVES OF TEXAS:Dr. Steve Pejovkh
discuss various topics concerning free enterprise at 7:30
|.m. in 302 Rudder.
Wednesday
|lINGCLUB:A general meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in 401
ludder.
JJBA CLUB:Possible dive trips will be discussed in a meeting
ft 8 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
jDERWATER HOCKEYtBringmask, fins, snorkel, suit and
owe! to the meeting (Scuba Club-sponsored) at 8 p.m. in 402
ludder.
College president finds text in vault
Book may revise Jewish history
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — The
president of Dropsie College has
found a rare, handwritten book
he says could be one of the most
significant discoveries ever in
Judaic literature, revising hun
dreds of years of Jewish history.
Dropsie president, David
Goldenberg, was searching the
rare book vault for a different
volume when he found the 1-
inch thick book buried beneath
microfilm and manuscripts.
“When I pulled it out and
started to read it, I couldn’t be
lieve it,” he said. “I knew what it
The discovery is a long-lost
handwritten manuscript that
Jewish history scholars believe is
the most complete record of rab
binic sermons delivered in Pales
tine during Jewish holy days
more than 1,500 years ago.
The find has tremendous im
portance, he said.
“This presents us with an in
credible picture of a slice of life
— the cultural, political and eco
nomic life of this period,” he
said. “From a historical point of
view, it tells us about Roman
campaigns through Palestine,
the architectural forms of syna
gogues — things just dropped in
passing to fill in gaps in our his-
torial background.”
Only two handwritten copies
of the manuscript had been
known to exist and both, in uni
versities in Italy, were adulter
ated and incomplete, Golden
berg said.
“There was no third manu
script as far as I knew — as far as
the whole world knew,” he said,
recalling the discovery.
The version, he said, “is 100
percent complete and seems to
preserve the original sermons.”
Goldenberg found a notation
in the minutes of a long-ago
meeting of the school’s board of
directors which said the volume
was presented to Dropsie in
1920 by its owner in London.
The manuscript is called the
Pesiqta Rabbati, an Aramaic-
language title that translates to
“The Great Chapters of Ser-
olumbia crew conducts
ilitary, drug experiments
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rphcu.^iPKCANAVERAI Fla-
■ pilots of the shuttle Gol-
Ka collected a sample Mon-
ay irom a machine that may
made tie ad to space drug factories, but
week to ilpparently had trouble with one
pe secret military experi-
Its conducted for the first
I in orbit.
■homas “Ken” Mattingly and
e mry Hartsfield also attemp-
■to photograph a mysterious
Tf on the “windward” side of
(spacecraft that had showed
1 /"-* C (in pictures from the shuttle’s
| ^ j ird flight in March.
■he astronauts were showing
Bigns of the space sickness
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private phys r t ew ’
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t clinic is f
he pilots opened a new
ned military-in-space era
he United States Sunday by
ing with the Defense De
ment experiment package
(king primarily of an in
dent testing ways to spot
Jane and missile exhaust
|i orbit.
arly problems with the
mbly forced the astronauts
;et some trouble-shooting
iJ ce radio from an Air
P ' ’ free control center in Califor-
the newer.* Defense Departmenl of fi.
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discussion of the payload opera
tion.
Mattingly was contacted by an
anonymous controller in the
military center again Monday. It
was a cryptic conversation, ob
viously designed to avoid dis
closing operation of the secret
payload, but the astronaut was
told to remove covers and look
for one experiment operating in
the cargo bay behind the
cockpit.
He followed the instructions
but told mission control at 10:20
a.m. EDT, “So far, I’ve had no
j°y-”
The space medicine job in
volved an experimental device
designed to take advantage of
the lack of gravity in orbit to con
centrate and purify valuable
biological materials useful in
fighting disease and overcoming
biological deficiencies.
Mattingly and Hartsfield had
two soupy substances to work
with. One was an attempt to
separate complex proteins cal
led albumins from a mixture.
The contents of the other sam
ple was a commercial secret.
After collecting the first of six
samples from the drug proces
sor, Hartsfield reported seeing
“very small bubbles” in the speci
men collection tube. But he said
he could see the substances
separating.
When Hartsfield first turned
on the machine, he reported
hearing “an awful clatter” in one
of the fans in the device.
“It sounded like a screw was
loose in there bouncing along in
the fan,” he said. He turned it
off and then on again and it
worked normally.
The astronauts sounded chip
per when they started their day
Monday.
“We’re ready to go to work,”
Mattingly told mission control at
4:55 a.m. EDT as the Columbia
cruised around the Earth on the
13th orbit of the planned 112-
orbit voyage — its fourth flight
in 15 months.
Houston control had radioed'
up a few strains of “Up, Up and
Away” to wake the spacemen,
but they already were up and
about the spaceship.
Mission controllers reported
Monday all systems were operat
ing normally.
The Columbia is flying high
er, at 185 miles, than it has be
fore and it is heavier, at 114 tons.
The prime objective of the
seven-day mission is to clear the
way for operational missions be
ginning in November when Col
umbia is to launch two com
munications satellites for its first
paying customers.
The military instruments
aboard the shuttle prompted the
first radio communications be
tween the shuttle and an Air
Force satellite control center lo
cated at Sunnyvale, Calif.
It was an unplanned session
made necessary late Sunday
when Mattingly encountered
problems in activating the hush-
hush payload. The mission com
mander, a Navy captain, twice
held a cryptic conversation with
an Air Force controller.
Neither the Air Force nor the
civilian space agency will discuss
the military payload, but both
agreed before launch to make all
radio communications public,
even if it involved discussion of
the Air Force instruments.
Although the Air Force ex
periments are classified “secret,”
they once were not classified and
have been discussed in public
documents.
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director LrlPASADENA — More than a
he clinicsatf(Bion dollars in damage occur-
Hastrovilleat* at the Ethyl Corp. plant
ase of eisl
P-
re an aluminum alkyl unit
hit by lightning, exploded
I then burned for 15 hours, a
Many official said Monday.
Bob Maeser, spokesman at
SylCorp., said the fire finally
as put out about 10:15 a.m.
jlnday.
IDtinoFOi: The plant, on the Houston
i lip Channel, manufactures
rlUS 131 Iminum alkyls, a reactive che-
ical used as a catalyst to make
her chemicals. Maeser said the
nit which exploded “was des-
oyed, along with some piping
ip wiring in the area.”
DHe said: “We don’t know yet
O'v much damage was done,
it we’re talking about over a
lillion dollars.”
Fifteen employees working
ar the unit Saturday night
wide, on
full time,
eased 1
to 7:0
from at least 10 surrounding
suburbs attempted to put out
the blaze.
He said the plant does not
plan to close down, and the dam
aged unit will be repaired
quickly.
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