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...reason to be excited, particularly since that business of coming home should have been relatively routine--at least by the high-wire standards of space travel. After shimmying out of their sleep restraints, the crew would stow gear and belt themselves into their seats--a process that would take a good six hours. With Columbia turned rump forward, the commander would then fire the main maneuvering engines, slowing the spacecraft and easing it toward the upper wisps of the atmosphere. Once he turned the ship around, he would surf the currents of the steadily thickening air, fishtailing this...
...Nimitz, who was located in Guam at the time, that there was being developed an atomic bomb, which would be in his area, in the Pacific, around the first of August of 1945. The letter was classified top secret and I was the custodian. I got myself a money belt and strapped it around my middle. I took it from Washington all the way to Guam, flying on military transport service. When I arrived in Guam, I went straight to Adm. Nimitz headquarters. I had to open up the shirt of my uniform, pull my shirt out of my pants...
Walker (Lee Marvin) has his seat belt on. The sleazy car dealer does not. “Where is Reese?” Walker asks, and drives the car into a pillar, crunching it and battering the car dealer. Then Walker reverses the car into another pillar. “Where is Reese...
...takes a newcomer to conceive fresh ideas. At the house of Givenchy, it took the new kid to dream up an old idea. Riccardo Tisci, plucked in March out of the Milanese fashion scene - with no couture experience and just three eponymous ready-to-wear collections under his belt - to head up the beleaguered house, wants to return Givenchy to its historical roots. "We went back to the archives to look at the old way of making couture dresses," said the designer, 30, as he welcomed guests to his fall?winter couture show last week. "Everyone basically thinks Audrey Hepburn...
...belt tightening has come as no surprise to industry watchers. Capital Cities, a successful owner of magazines, newspapers and broadcasting stations, is known for running lean, and extremely profitable, operations. ABC, meanwhile, has been floundering financially. As NBC last week celebrated its first victory ever in Nielsen's cumulative annual prime-time ratings, ABC chalked up a last-place place finish for the second year in a row. Capital Cities/ABC executives told stockholders three weeks ago that the network may post a net loss this year for the first time since 1971. Nor is the situation likely to improve quickly...