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...crowds surged against the chain-link fence that sealed off the press and VIP stands. Outside the fence a biker raised a homemade sign: SHOW YOUR TITS. Several girls obediently shed their shirts and climbed aboard their boy friends' shoulders. A group of bikers hoisted a naked woman aloft and tossed her over a fence into the press compound. One girl stripped and, encouraged by the crowd, performed fellatio on her boy friend while he shouted: "For you, Evel! For you, man!" Others chanted a constant refrain: "The tribes have gathered!" When the crowd shouted obscenities at a public...
...from 5,000 to 10,000 microwave circuits. At present, the aerostat must be hauled down once a week to refuel the Wankel-powered electric generator; in the future, electric power may be sent up directly from the ground through the tether cable, allowing the balloon to be left aloft almost indefinitely...
When Soyuz 15 was launched last week from the Soviet space center in Kazakhstan, every sign pointed to another attempt to link up with the Salyut 3 space station, which has been orbiting the earth since last June. Yet after only two days aloft, Soyuz 15 returned abruptly to earth without docking with the lab. The landing, made at night and in bad weather, seemed to underline the urgency of the return. What had gone wrong? As usual, the Soviets admitted no problem, but American space analysts speculated that Soyuz's electrical power plant may have failed during...
...imaginative exobiologists.* Last week technicians at TRW Inc. in Redondo Beach, Calif., were finishing two miniaturized laboratories that will be able to test Martian soil for evidence of life. Next August, in the climax to NASA'S $1 billion Project Viking, two unmanned spacecraft will be fired aloft from Cape Canaveral. After an eleven-month journey, the Viking ships will swing into orbit around Mars. Each will release a lander containing a life-seeking laboratory. After descending with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized package should touch down on July 4, 1976, near the mouth...
...custom of the place. The sad truth is that a merely average revival of a classic, whether by Shakespeare or some other great playwright, leaves only the forlorn impression of a weighted balloon. It takes superior acting, direction and a current of passion and imagination to raise it gloriously aloft. Stratford opened its 20th season with two grounded balloons, Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet...