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...sinewy remote-controlled arm, using it to lift out into space a German-built platform known as SPAS (for Shuttle Pallet Satellite), which is loaded with scientific instruments. More significant, they are slated for a two-day game of tag with a 6½-ft.-diameter Mylar balloon. As the sphere drifts as far as 120 miles away, the crew will use radar and optical tracking to find their way back to it. The maneuvers are a rehearsal for April's retrieval of Solar...
Once they got to work, though, plenty was going on, including celebratory breakfasts, pizza parties and balloon poppings. In San Francisco, a giant banner showing the company's globelike logo was unfurled at AT&T's regional headquarters. At its Manhattan offices, the new, slimmed-down AT&T got quickly down to work and showed that things would be changing in American business. On Monday, the company signed an agreement under which Convergent Technologies, a computer manufacturer, will build new products for AT&T. Before the breakup, such a move would have been barred by the Government...
...been more dedicated than Joan Challinor, a Washington historian, who served as chairwoman of the National Committee for the Bicentennial of the Treaty of Paris. She appeared in Boston's Old North Church to talk to the faithful. She took a ride above Utah in a hot-air balloon dubbed The Treaty of Paris, the connection being that this is also the bicentennial of manned flight, an epic event that occurred in Paris and was witnessed by Benjamin Franklin. Challinor climbed to the daunting heights of the pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral in London to inspire...
There are other alternatives to the bypass. In the mid-1970s, Swiss Cardiologist Andreas Gruntzig developed an ingenious method of unclogging arteries using a small balloon. In angioplasty, now performed on about 12,000 patients a year, a narrow tube, or catheter, is threaded into the diseased artery until it reaches the clogged area. At that point a tiny balloon at the tip of the catheter is repeatedly inflated so that it flattens the deposits against the arterial wall and widens the channel...
...sure, examples of pure, timeless classicism and of ethereal visions fashioned out of yards of Chantilly lace. More often he sheds convention like an overcoat in springtime. There are reckless forays into nudity, called see-through in the catalogue; avalanches of silk that swell the exemplary trapeze into a balloon; decadent wraith-wear for psychedelic occasions. Is this foolery (all done before the designer turned 40) vulgar, silly, nutty? Yes, probably all three. But some of it is inspired. Viewed today, the 1967 "African" collection, which could be subtitled variations on a beaded curtain, looks fresh, funny and unabashedly theatrical...