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...keep Skylab aloft long enough to be saved by the shuttle, space engineers have devised an elaborate rescue plan. In March, they switched on Skylab's long-dormant solar-powered electrical system to charge batteries and heat frozen equipment. Last week they were preparing to turn on the ship's stabilizing gyroscopes and fire its small attitude control thrusters. They hoped to stop Skylab from wobbling through space and significantly reduce drag...
...power consumers need at prices they can afford." Wagner's ally on the three-man board was William Jenkins, who complained bitterly about harassment by environmentalists and quit. But Jimmy Carter felt that the TVA had lost its sense of mission. It had, he complained, "become dormant and just another power company." One result was that to fill a vacant directorship nine months ago, Carter appointed Freeman, then a principal architect of the Administration's energy policy. The President decided to make him the chairman upon Wagner's retirement...
...while would be Governor General of Australia, a country that Charles has loved since his six months there as a student. The post has been a touchy one ever since Governor General Sir John Kerr, in order to break a parliamentary deadlock in 1975, used long dormant powers to sack Conservative Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and call for new elections. Kerr last year resigned, turning the job over to the Australian-born academic Sir Zelman Cowen. But after Cowen has had another four or five years in office, says a source close to Buckingham Palace, the Queen would like...
Leslie H. Gelb, 41. As director of the department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, the articulate Gelb has elevated that office from its near-dormant status under Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. His main influence has been on arms control policy, where he works well with SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke. The two were close associates in the Defense Department in the late 1960s. A co-author of segments of the celebrated Pentagon papers, a onetime strategic affairs specialist at the Brookings Institution and a former diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, Gelb is distrusted by hawkish opponents...
...said the center has been "dormant" in such activities for several years, but that it plans to go "full force" in expanding this initial program...