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...Argentine National Symphony in 1957. His technique is brisk and athletic, and he embellishes a graceful, conservative beat with little dance steps. While conducting the first movement of Bartok's Concerto jor Orchestra, he became so involved in the rhythmic current that his left hand began to drift meaninglessly-but the good-natured Symphony of the Air helped him sound ingenious...
...pact that left the Austro-Hungarian throne of the Habsburgs without a male heir; in Hütteldorf, Austria. Only five when her father died, she grew up to marry Prince Otto zu Windisch-Graetz but grew steadily disenchanted with her royal life, divorced him after 23 years to drift into socialism, marry Austrian Social Democrat Leopold Petznek and become known as "the Red Princess...
...inertial navigation system (SINS). The three SINS, which check each other, dangle from the stable ceiling platform of the Ethan Allen's navigation center. They contain a secret array of spinning gyroscopes and accelerometers, can measure the most minute variation in the ship's movement due to drift. A computer called NAVDAC (for navigation data assimilation computer) records the position changes detected by SINS...
...book has none of these. The novel is built on the plan of the expanding universe or of one of those whirling platforms at amusement parks; the reader starts at the center, and, as the narration picks up speed, slides helplessly toward infinity, while his sanity and his umbrella drift away in different directions...
...that it need not be repeated. The next Venus probe will be much more sophisticated. Dr. Meghreblian thinks that Venus is probably plagued by terrific winds, and he wants the next spacecraft to drop a capsule into the planet's clouds to release tough-skinned balloons that will drift with the Venusian gales. A few such balloons, carrying radios that can be followed by an orbiting spacecraft, should tell a lot about the planet's meteorology and perhaps explain what the mysterious clouds are made...