Word: gyros
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...boosters, preservatives, protein additives, fillers or cereals") have long passed the 6 billion mark in sales. The Near East may never solve its tensions, but American Arabs and Jews agree upon the merits of the felafel - Arabian bread stuffed with beans, salad, pickle, ol ives and sesame sauce. The gyro, a Greek concoction of lamb, tomato and onion, has pre-empted the frankfurter's place on many Eastern city streets. On both coasts, the Mexican taco has become a short-order staple. Soul food has gone national. Colonel Sanders' finger-lickin' Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets now number...
...Rachal to price it low; by 1959, the company was turning out 180 of the 150-m.p.h. craft a year. The following year, Rachal switched to an all-metal plane, the single-engine Mark 21. The rakishly styled plane grew more popular with the addition in 1964 of a gyro-driven control system that automatically keeps the plane on course without constant pilot corrections...
...axis. To move backwards, he will pull back on the left control knob and activate forward-firing thrusters. If an astronaut has to use both hands for other jobs, he will move into the proper atti tude, then throw a stabilizer switch and use his AMU's gyro-controlled stabilizer system to "park" in space...
...part of it and it's part of me." Ford Motor Co.'s Don Frey worked closely with Clark at Indianapolis, calls him "the epitome" of a racing driver. "His greatest asset," says Frey, "is his imperturbability. When he was five or ten years old, a gyro began spinning somewhere inside him and he became his own standard maker. He's inner-directed. He lives in his own world...
...word commands are "X," "Y" and "Z," which call for motion in one of three directions. The astronaut can also say "stop," to end whatever action is going on, or "cage" to shut down the whole apparatus. "Stop-plus" and "stop-minus" might be used to switch on the gyro apparatus that keeps his attitude stabilized within two different degrees of accuracy...