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...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. It was now August...
Most of his furniture, designed during the Depression, was intended for particular buildings. A chair made for the Finnish civil guard headquarters is blunt and homely, but utility was the point: half a dozen or more could be stacked up for storage. A stacking armchair designed in 1929, its rear legs, back rail and arms a single piece of bent wood, is swanker, a kind of streamlined Thonet. Yet despite the curvature, it is still a plain old chair, a clunky seat stuck onto four legs-a goat just beginning, it appears, to turn into a gazelle...
...first anniversary of liberation came and went with only quiet fanfare on Grenada. In the dining room of the Grenada Beach Hotel, home for most of the 240 U.S. soldiers and military policemen still on the island, Rear Admiral Ralph Hedges, commander of U.S. forces in the Caribbean, paid tribute to the 19 servicemen who died in last year's momentous rescue mission. In the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, some 450 local citizens and dignitaries heard Father Cyril Lamontagne of St. Lucia thank the Lord, who, he said, "stretched forth his mighty hand to bring...
...like a song cue from the loveliest libretto ever written. Each move seems choreographed to the playwright's verbal arias; the actors glide across Designer Ralph Koltai's gleaming Margard floor as if they were skating on a frozen ebony pond. Through the translucent bower at stage rear we can see the sky swirling madly with birds, fireflies and what looks like a red UFO as the carping lovers lead their fellows in a dashing waltz. The "dead" Hero stands behind a huge golden mandala; in front, monks move to the sweet melancholy of a torchlight dirge...
...waterway just before the explosions began on July 9. Soon after, it was noted that mines had exploded in both the southbound and northbound shipping lanes of the Red Sea, in waters that the Ghat had traveled. Later, French officials who inspected the ship at Marseilles ascertained that its rear loading dock appeared to have been lowered at sea and damaged by waves. Finally, British experts who examined an unexploded mine reported that it was an "ultrasophisticated" device made by the Soviet Union, one of Libya's primary arms suppliers. All in all, declared U.S. State Department Spokesman Alan...