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...more charged atomic particles-which make up the solar wind-are being hurled into space. The stronger solar wind heats the thin gases in the outer fringe of the earth's atmosphere, which causes them to expand outward into the orbit of Skylab. That increases the drag on the craft...
...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...
...That's it! We'll start the show with a jet. Turn up the sound real loud, like a real landing-we should be careful, though, this new Sensurround business has actually made the dice jump off the table-and drag the plane onstage with beautiful stewardesses in gold bikinis on the wings...
...what he is talking about. He has no feel for the times when kids were trying to resolve the contradictions between an inherited style of surviving adolescence and the radically different, new possibilities. Pat Boone and Elvis Presley, the malt shop and the rock concert, the jalopy and the drag racer, white bucks and black leather jackets-for a while in the '50s, two ways of being a teen-ager existed side by side. The poignancy of Grease derived from that juxtaposition: Can sweet Sandy, representing the Sandra Dee side of the coin, find happiness with dangerous Danny...
...Federal Home Loan Bank Board?is to induce depositors to leave their savings in the bank instead of withdrawing them and investing them in bonds and in mutual funds that specialize in high-interest-bearing securities. Such withdrawals reduce the money available for housing mortgages and place a drag on the entire economy...