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...return. (If an object is launched high enough to avoid the upper atmosphere's braking effects, it can orbit indefinitely, like the moon.) At times, in order to do closeup snooping, the Soviets let their satellites descend to as low as 100 miles, then boost them up with onboard rockets to prevent any further orbital "decay...
...fire quickly spread through the Sheffield's electrical wiring and its paintwork. The explosion also knocked out the ship's lighting and destroyed the principal water main used for onboard fire fighting. Said Salt: "We couldn't get below decks near the seat of the damage. We knew there were men down there, but we didn't know how many." After hours of unsuccessful fire fighting, Salt made the agonizing decision to abandon ship. Later he returned to his command by helicopter to view the damage. The Sheffield had refused to sink, but it remained...
...developing its image and standing for quality," he says. "That image, over 27 years, has been established in a very positive way." It also has had a salutary effect on Escapade. Before the Playboy partnership, Escapade was available on some 100 cable systems. Now that Hef has come onboard, Maglio is expecting to attract an additional 115 cable outlets by June...
...replaced its four engines with more powerful jets. The plane's crucial external modification is the revolving radar disc, the 6-ft.-thick aluminum and fiberglass rotodome attached to the fuselage by two 11-ft. pylons. The radar was designed to work in tandem with an onboard high-speed computer, and its data is displayed on nine or more separate consoles inside the plane. It is this computer phalanx, with a program that can be amended in flight, that makes the AWACS a surpassingly powerful military tool...
...visited for a year; he does all his work in the fo'c'sle of his 43-ft. cabin cruiser, which is berthed in a boat basin on the Hudson River at Manhattan's 79th Street. He keeps in touch with secretary and clients by onboard phone. Says he: "My therapy is tinkering. On a boat there's always something to do." There's also always something to do for his son Ari, 13. Says Abramson: "Living here for kids is a real learning experience. They have to learn how to take care of motors...