Word: brandes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recovery carrier New Orleans. The only visible problem aboard the craft as it returned from its historic space rendezvous with a Soviet Soyuz was minor. Some of the parachute shrouds caught on the Apollo's nose and capsized it; that left Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald ("Deke") Slayton hanging face down from the straps holding them in their contour-fitted couches for several minutes until flotation balloons could right the capsule. But when they finally climbed out of the Apollo 45 minutes later, after it had been hoisted aboard the New Orleans, the astronauts appeared no more...
...level. Scarcely able to breathe, the spacemen choked through the harrowing four-minute descent. After the splashdown, they struggled for another five minutes, while suspended upside down in the capsized craft, to get at oxygen masks, stowed in a hard-to-reach spot behind their couches. Brand, whose mask fit poorly, passed out; he revived a minute or so later when Slayton and Stafford clapped the mask tightly over his face...
...Guitarist Coryell has played with the big names in jazz-rock. His album "Spaces" features John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea. But he's forgotten anything he might have learned from them. Reknowned once for his lightening notebursts and technical fire, Coryell has settled back into a soft-pedaled brand of music which is only a string chorus away from being supermarket sap. July 31-August 3 at the jazz Workshop...
...Soyuz and shook hands and exchanged bear hugs with Leonov and his fellow crewman, Valery Kubasov. Then they traded gifts, including flags and commemorative plaques; Leonov, a gifted amateur painter, gave the astronauts sketches he had done of them. After some small talk the four, plus Astronaut Vance Brand back in Apollo, sat back to listen to greetings from their national leaders. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, in a message relayed by mission controllers outside Moscow, hailed the meeting in space as marking a "new page in the history of research." President Ford, sitting in front of a TV camera...
...FNLA, whose motto "self reliance" is reminiscent of the Chinese who train their 20,000-strong army in camps in Zaire, oppose the MPLA program poder popular because "within the context of our country, direct democracy is not possible." Holden Roberto has described his brand of socialism as neither right nor left, African above all--"If socialism is economic growth and a better life for the people, then I am a socialist" but denounces Neto's "Vandalistic socialism...