Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mean tail wind whipped up the Charles Basin, and only after a deadly crab stopped the Husky shell near the end of the race, did the Crimson pull from behind...
...Airlines last week was hard-sell advertising its Royal Hawaiian Red Carpet First Class, in cluding Mai Tais, a filet mignon teriyaki, fancy desserts ("You don't have to pronounce 'em to enjoy 'em"), wide-screen color movies, and a stewardess in a tropical kimuu to pull on your slippers. Trans World Airlines was promoting its four-entree coach meals (seven entrees first class), plus its wide-screen movies and eight channels of stereo, with a hi-fi for everybody...
...problem could arise during any extravehicular activity, and the answer seems simple: haul in the tether. But in frictionless space, the free-floating astronaut is orbiting the spaceship as it circles the earth, and any attempt to pull him in would make him rotate around it so fast that he would be ultimately subjected to fatal G forces. He would also be moving at an uncontrollable speed when he finally reached-and crashed into-the spacecraft...
...Marton until one evening when he was playing with his son's stand-mounted toy dog made of beads. When the bottom of the stand was pressed up, the string threaded through the beads relaxed and the dog collapsed; when it was released, the strung-together dog was pulled into shape again. Why not use the same simple principle in a tether? So Marton built a new space line of interlocking aluminum balls and collars, all strung on a central cable. When the cable is loose, the tether is completely flexible, bending at each ball joint. But when tightened...
...abortion for any pregnant unmarried woman (72%), intercourse between unmarried persons (80%); 70% think it "very important" that churches be involved in the struggle for racial justice. Although 69% oppose any escalation of the war in Viet Nam, only one Unitarian in five thinks that the U.S. should unilaterally pull its forces out of Southeast Asia...