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...ground-based horn and its complicated collection of equipment has unlimited electricity available, but Telstar's operating power comes from its solar cells, which generate only 15 watts-not enough to keep all its apparatus operating all the time. As a result, the satellite's command obeying system, which throws electronic switches in response to coded signals from the earth, is one of its most important features. When circuits are not needed, they can be turned off to conserve power and to give the solar cells a chance to recharge Telstar's storage battery...
...supporters in key posts. But apart from his health, two circumstances weaken Kozlov's chances: the mere fact of being once designated by Khrushchev as heir apparent tends to unify his rivals (Lenin preferred Trotsky and Stalin handpicked Malenkov); Kozlov rose to eminence in the Leningrad party apparatus, historically distrusted by the other powerful Russian and Ukrainian Communist factions...
...major reason for the novel's uncertain mood is that it tries, unsuccessfully, to deal with the 20th century's grey plague-a paralysis of the apparatus that detects meaning in life. Greyness of spirit is what one writes about these days; fair enough. But the author's view of things must not be greyed. And in Letting Go, after a few fine satirical flashes at the beginning, Roth becomes bogged in solemnity whenever he tries to assess his dreary hero...
...gallused might of Clarence Darrow at the Scopes trial, or the wild, flappering chorus lines of Broadway would ever depict the tumultuous '20s half so well as the one memorable moment when bareheaded Charles Lindbergh, an unbelievably young man who challenged the skies without a huge backing apparatus of machines and men. returned to his own land to be led to the people in triumph by top-hatted Grover Wrhalen...
...serves the patient in much the same way that a fuel oil intake in the sidewalk serves a suburban home. The conduit, 1 in. to 3 in. long, is inserted through a slit in the belly muscle. It is threaded to take a screw-plug that seals the whole apparatus when it is not in use. For irrigation, this plug is unscrewed and replaced by one with a hole drilled through on the bias. Through this hole a tube is inserted to carry the irrigation fluid. By rotating the plug with its angled orifice, fluid can be directed...