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...dredge scoops up hundreds of tons of sand, digging the trench in which the pipeline will be laid. On the river's western bank, the completed pipeline juts up from the water and disappears into a steep, rocky ridge. Unperturbed by tl frenetic activity, fishermen walk along the pipe that has not yet been laid and cast their nets into the Volga...
...Pomary section bears all the signs of a multinational project. The huge 600-ft -long, 4½-ft.-wide section of pipe that cuts under the riverbanks is from West Germany and Japan. Finland supplied the building that houses the turbine compressors, Britain the electrical equipment, Japan the valves, Italy the turbine compressors. Technicians from all those countries have been working on the project...
...sending only a fraction of its ground-to-orbit capacity. These difficulties were compounded by the brief blackout of a tracking station in White Sands, N. Mex., and the failure of an electronic relay on the shuttle. The device was supposed to collect data from the pallet experiments and pipe them into Spacelab's computers...
...like someone had hit me over the head with an iron pipe," said one defense attorney, Theo Mitchell. "The sentence shocked everyone in the courtroom-the clerk, the solicitor, the sheriff, even the victim." As for Defendants Roscoe James Brown, 27, Mark Vaughn, 21, and Michael Braxton, 19, "they really didn't understand the import at first," said Glenn W. Thomason, another defense lawyer. "They thought he meant sterilization. I explained that he meant cutting their testicles off. That put them in a state of shock, to put it mildly." Nevertheless, the three are so terrified of a long...
...knew the match wouldn't be a lead pipe cinch, but we're not giving it back." said Penn Coach Dave Micahmik of the victory...