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Classmate John Freeman, at 150 pounds, tell to touch New Hampshire grappler but came back with a pin against WPI Fellow Yardling Pete Holmes also walked away undefeated (2-0-1), and at 167, Kevin McGinty went 1-1 while Richard Lyman posted one loss...
Zilcosky, wrestling at 177 lbs., sweated through two rounds against Tom Gibbons before he was able to force the pin with only 20 seconds remaining in the match...
Solar Max had been built with retrieval in mind; it had a grappling pin in the middle of its belly. Palapa-B2 and Westar6 are of the old-fashioned expendable variety, with smooth sides and no handles. The stinger, measuring 64 in. and consisting of a pole mounted on a round base, solved the problem neatly. It would inject an expanding prong into the satellite's rear motor, locking on to it and providing a grip for the wrangler-astronauts. As Allen explained, "It's like opening an umbrella inside a chimney." In practice sessions Allen could...
...good taste, politeness, moderation in dress and volume, and the family. Painters, writers and musicians had accomplished a similar negation before any of today's punks were born. The fractured images of any of Picasso's Guernica period paintings are as visually disturbing as a youth with a safety pin through his cheek. Atonal symphonies, far more dissonant and demanding than anything a punk can create with simple feedback techniques, have existed since the days when people still listened to Glen Miller. The best indicator of the punk ethic's staleness, though, is the Dadas...
...most striking symbol of women's struggle for pay equity is a pin that reads simply "59?." It represents the longstanding average pay earned by women for every dollar earned by men. That is changing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the figure is now 64?. A report by the Rand Corp., an independent California think tank, says the change is due to women's improved education and experience, which are being compensated in the free market,"rather than legislation, Government commissions or political movements" The report also argues that one reason average women's wages...