Word: hr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather successful day outside," announced Mission Control laconically. That was something of an understatement. For 6 hr. 34 min. 35 sec. last week, two of the three Skylab 3 astronauts, Air Force Lieut. Colonel William Pogue and Physicist Edward Gibson, worked outside their giant orbital station, set up cosmic-ray detectors, made repairs and prepared to take their first good look at Comet Kohoutek. The Thanksgiving Day walk in space, longer by 3 min. 2 sec. than the record jaunt of the Skylab 2 astronauts, marked an auspicious beginning for a historic journey: the last and, NASA hopes, longest...
...high point of the trip was a 2-hr. 45-min. meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. No details of their talks were released, but afterward the Secretary of State expressed his delight that the Chinese had chosen to describe the meeting as "friendly...
...HR Band...
That was the main message following all the hoopla at the Houston Astrodome last week. The putative Battle of the Sexes turned out to be one more sorry chapter in the story of the ancient struggle between sclerotic age and limber youth. In three straight sets that lasted 2 hr. 5 min., Billie Jean King, 29, the pride of women's tennis, briskly dispatched Robert Larimore Riggs, the huckster who had hustled the world of spectator sportsmen into believing that you really can go home again...
First-year drummers must attend, at their own expense, a weeklong, 18-hr.-a-day training course in Nashville that is equal parts pregame pep talk and deadly serious sales talk. The recruits, mostly clean-cut kids, memorize their spiel ("Hi, Miz Jones, I'm Joe College, and I'm out here in your neighborhood calling on some of the church people...