Word: glitched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst was still to come. When the disappointed astronauts moved Apollo back to the nose of Skylab to dock for a rest period, another glitch developed: Apollo's docking mechanism, which had worked the first time, suddenly balked. Several times Conrad bumped Apollo's nose into Skylab's docking adapter; each time, Apollo's docking mechanism failed to engage...
Seattle Attorney Edward Rauscher was vacationing at Vancouver's Bayshore Inn where the elevator doesn't stop at the 19th and 20th floors because Howard Hughes lives there. One day, though, somebody in the elevator with Rauscher playfully pushed 20. By some electronic glitch the number lit up on the indicator. "When I saw that 20 light up," says Rauscher, "I knew I had from one to 20 seconds to think about what I was going to do." He decided to ask Hughes for a donation to his favorite charity, PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Civic, Cultural and Charitable...