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...worry about Maman's comments. But in the French fashion industry's showings of spring clothes last week, some of her new numbers did not seem cal culated to endear her to too many other women ? though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well tie up traffic wherever ? or if ? they are worn. The most spectacular clothes Rykiel exhibited feature necklines that do not plunge: they go over the brink, leaving the bosom bare, out there...
...conclude the book, one of which Clarke included in his sworn testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Space Science in 1975. Clarke gave full rein to his imagination in this encounter, tantalizing the committee members with the possibility of laying a cable from a satellite in geostationary orbit all the way down to the earth's surface. Payloads could then be sent up the cable by mechanical means, creating an "electric elevator to space, or a Streetcar Named Heaven." Clarke ended his formal remarks before the Congressmen with a reversal of the ancient astrologers' dictum: "The time...
...trouble comes in the form of a beetle-shaped Soviet satellite about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, equipped with very-high-frequency radio antennas and small, square infra-red scanners that work in tandem with radar to direct the killer toward its orbiting prey. The anti-satellite interceptor (ASAT) has a parabolic "dish" antenna that homes in on the target satellite and gets the ASAT - actu ally a space bomb - close to the target, where it detonates. The ASAT goes off like a super hand grenade, spraying the victim satellite with metal-piercing fragments. ASAT's main...
...ahead to land in New York City, we could put a man on the moon, so why the phosphoric acid couldn't the University's team of Bocuse-trained, Michelin-three-star chefs get the green light on Walnut/Bac-o/Cyclamate burgers? They could put Tang and Xylitol in orbit, but why weren't they allowed to put them in the Union...
...moon more than four years ago, NASA has been slowly turning away from one-shot man-in-space spectaculars. Instead, it has been concentrating an increasing amount of research and money on development of the space shuttle, a "pickup truck" of a craft that could be shot into orbit, stop off with men and equipment at a galaxy of space satellites and skylabs, and return to earth safely, making at least 100 round trips before being retired. By successfully completing the kind of landing it will have to make each time it returns from space, the Enterprise has helped...