Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lest the consumer and our dealers be led astray, may I correct the statement in your story "Max Troubles for Betamax" [Jan. 16] that indicates Toshiba has abandoned Beta? On the contrary, Beta is still being sold by Toshiba in both the U.S. and Japan. With the advent of Beta hi-fi and Beta movies, Toshiba's business in this videotape system is booming...
These daredevil exercises were a rehearsal for Challenger's April voyage, when its crew will try to recover and repair a $150 million scientific satellite called Solar Max (for Solar Maximum Mission), which was launched in February 1980, at the approaching peak of the solar cycle, to gather information on the effects of the sun's activities on the earth. The robot observatory has been crippled for the past three years because of a minor electrical problem. Flying to the satellite with his manned maneuvering unit (MMU), an astronaut will attach himself to the ailing bird. Then...
...their second space walks two days later, the astronauts were scheduled to enact a dry run of one key part of April's mission: halting Solar Max's spin. But the gremlins that had been so disastrous earlier in the flight struck once more. The astronauts discovered that the shuttle's trusty triple-jointed arm had mysteriously developed a machine's equivalent of arthritis. It could not adequately move its "wrist." The problem effectively scuttled the plan to lift SPAS out of the cargo bay and rotate it slowly in space...
...exercise for April's satellite rescue had flopped. That was when a big Mylar balloon released by the shuttle apparently expanded while still in its canister and burst. The shuttle had been scheduled to chase the balloon from distances up to 120 miles as training for finding Solar Max. At week's end, there was still no explanation of why that $400,000 experiment had misfired...
...repairman." At 1.00 in the morning? "The only thing that breaks at that time of the morning," the detective says, "are the hearts of men like us." Fitting every scrap of evidence into his now increasingly suspicious mind, Claude concludes the socks of his wife's lover belong to Max Stein (Armand Assante), his protege and rising violin player. Still in New York, Claude is ready for more than sulking...