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...responded to a command by separating from the orbiter and beginning its 3-hr. 17-min. descent to the surface. Penetrating the Martian atmosphere, it shed its clamshell-like protective covering, deployed a 53-ft.-diameter parachute to slow its descent, and shortly before touchdown fired its retrorockets to brake its fall further. Engineers at J.P.L. watched nervously as the signals on their consoles marked the completion of each stage of the landing procedure. Because the signals, traveling at the speed of light, took nearly 19 min. to travel from Viking back to earth, scientists at J.P.L. were only...
...brake sterling's slide through March and April, the Bank of England used up $2 billion in reserves, then borrowed from the International Monetary Fund in May. Almost certainly, further borrowings would only be available in return for a program of stringent cuts in government spending. Yet spending cuts would jeopardize the key element in the Labor government's strategy to pull Britain back from its economic abyss: an agreement by the leadership of the Trades Union Congress to hold wage increases to 4½% ($4.61 on an average worker's salary) beginning Aug. 1 (TIME...
...probably too venerable and rigid to be the kind of Premier that Juan Carlos needs at such a critical time. The King apparently recognizes that if Spain swings too far left too swiftly, there would be no returning, but in no sense is he acting as a brake on change in Spanish life. On the contrary, he evinces a certain impatience with the immobility of the old guard. Under the present constitution, he has more power than he has chosen to exercise. In the name of preserving a modern monarchy during the turbulent months ahead, he is bound to exercise...
...also seems to have decided that she can get along without a coherent plot. The typical show seems to be a collection of barely related episodes intended mainly to display Jaime's powers: she stops a rampaging elephant by tugging on its chain; uses her foot to brake an out-of-control car; leaps onto a second-story fire escape to avoid danger...
Instead, it was a shanked brake which caused Scott McNeely, Alex Vik, Randy Millen, and John Bartlett all of the trouble, as the foursome encountered an unexpected hazard (automobile) along the highway...