Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking ahead, the computer industry sees pure gold. There are 83 million U.S. homes with TV sets, 54 million white-collar workers, 26 million professionals, 4 million small businesses. Computer salesmen are hungrily eyeing every one of them. Estimates for the number of personal computers in use by the end of the century run as high as 80 million. Then there are all the auxiliary industries: desks to hold computers, luggage to carry them, cleans...
...what went wrong with Lenoir's suit. Despite all efforts during the flight, the suit would not reach the required pressure, 4.3 Ibs. per sq. in. (Although this is only a third of the earth's normal atmospheric pressure, it is adequate because the astronauts are breathing pure oxygen rather than the oxygen-nitrogen mix that they would get at sea level...
...panel's most distressing discovery was a stray steel chip, perhaps a burr from a screw, in an exhaust vent of the suit's oxygen supply system. If the fragment had been in the pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that...
...should be, but this is true of me." In the film, Michael says he knows what it is to be a woman precisely because he is an actor. "An actor waits by the phone," he cries; "he has no power when he gets a job." That line is pure Hoffman...
...pure villain is on display in Doctor De Soto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $11.95). William Steig is a septuagenarian whose stories seem to grow younger with every effort. In his newest book, he follows the adventures of an altruistic mouse dentist, Dr. De Soto, who accepts a highly dangerous and extremely toothy patient. The fox, acting timid, tries to outmouse Dr. De Soto. But the rodent soon outfoxes the patient by employing a bit of orthodontia. The heroics should reassure anyone due for a six-month checkup or a set of braces...