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...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 not reach the handle to "open" the umbrella. Another redesign was needed...
...first prong of the defense was clearly necessary for the second. Without the claim that the Court behaved like an independent judicial body, Ambassador Barros' pejorative assessment of American behavior would have been difficult to sustain. All things considered, if the Court did not behave properly and independently, perhaps there was good reason for the United States to be displeased...
...still people are streaming in. Kalal announces that the caucus is moving to larger quarters in the basement of the Methodist Church a block away. Once there, Kalal starts looking for an outlet for his projector in back of the dark oak podium. But nowhere is there a three-prong outlet. Kalal, slightly ruffled, dispatches someone to find a blackboard. "I'll have to play this by ear," he says, opening the meeting. "I'm Jim Kalal, your temporary chairman, and this is your neighborhood caucus meeting. I guess we're a large neighborhood...
...time for the Jim McKay 11 o'clock roundup--corral the heifers, clam, the dogies, make one last summary plea'to the jury, drive our moral home so the Baptist preachers down in Dry Prong. Louisiana don't immolate the album when we get it released...
...Perhaps more dangerous in the long run are the heating pads, blankets, bed controls and reading lamps that everyone takes for granted. If current from any of these ungrounded appliances reaches a patient's body, he may suffer burns or electric shock. Even when the supposedly safe three-prong plug with a ground wire is used, there is still a danger. Because the equipment is plugged in and out so often, usually by undertrained aides who understand nothing about electricity, the ground wire may break inside the cable or the plug...