Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another Soviet official. Oleg and Irina had been seen together in London restaurants and nightclubs for months, and though she is not believed to be with the KGB, she defected with him. Oleg was supposed to be a trade official who bought such British-made items as panty hose and negligees for export. He was actually a captain in the KGB, and was thought to be a relative of Lieut. General Serafim Lyalin, head of the KGB directorate that deals with breaking codes...
...Made from a lightweight knit fabric similar to that used in swimsuits, Pan-T-Boot is actually an extraheavy pair of panty hose with soles and heels attached. It was conceived by Suzanne Garfield, 33, daughter of a California millionaire drugchain owner, after she found that her fabric boots wrinkled and sagged around her ankles while she was dancing. With her brother Gil, 37, she whacked away at a pair of tights and some oversized boots, spliced the two with pins and clips and, after a week of adjustment here and there, sewed them together. The creation was snapped...
...developed in 1966 by Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur, a physicist. Made of silicone rubber and Dacron, the booster is deceptively simple in construction. Six inches long and shaped like a cigar, it consists of two tubes, a balloon-like outer bladder surrounding a narrow tube, with an air hose that leads from the outer tube to a helium-powered driving unit and compressed air tank outside the body...
...intricate business. Shanks, who was near death, was wheeled into the operating room at 7:15 p.m. Doctors opened his chest and slit the descending aorta, the downward trunk of the main artery leading from the heart. They then sewed the booster directly into the aorta, led the air hose out through the chest and connected it to the exterior tank. The procedure took five hours, but it was not until 5 a.m. that Shanks left the operating room; Kantrowitz kept him there until he was certain that the booster was doing...
...dial in the lunar module had mysteriously shattered. Although the breakage itself was inconsequential, Mission Control was anxious to have them sweep up glass fragments lest they damage the astronauts' pressure suits. The shards were collected with a piece of sticky, flypaper-like tape and a vacuum hose...