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One by one, methods of rescuing Skylab were considered by NASA and then discarded as impractical. There was talk of a joint Soviet-American mission, using the Soviet Soyuz system, but it had to be abandoned because the Russian craft's docking hardware was incompatible with Skylab's. Soyuz also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

But for most departments, what Bowersock called the "ideal tutorial situation"--one full-time Faculty member with one student--remains, like most ideals, unrealized. Higonnet says he will try "diplomatically" to maneuver Faculty members into participating in tutorials. If diplomacy fails, then he said he guesses he will "get more...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Latest of the Great Reforms | 6/5/1979 | See Source »

More serious theorists had a more obvious culprit-Israel. Fearful that Iraq would use the reactor to produce bombs rather than electricity, the Israelis have been protesting the proposed shipment for the past three years. The French had been stung many times before by MOSSAD, Israel's secret service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Atom Thriller | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Take the gap. White phrase for leave the country, derived from rugby maneuver of breaking past other players. The emigration route, once known as the Chicken Run, is today widely referred to as the Owl Run, because it is now considered more wise than cowardly to take the gap.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Between the Gat and the Gap | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Western aerospace engineers said yesterday that Soyuz 33 was unable to make the difficult approach maneuver and that similar problems in the past resulted in a Soyuz booster malfunction.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet-Bulgarian Space Team Fails in Mission | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

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