Word: remains
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...last six Apollo landings, the LMs will be modified so that the astronauts can remain on the moon for up to 72 hours. Apollo 11 's crew will remain only 22 hours, though their LM is designed for a maximum 48-hour stay. Later astronauts should have more mobility on the lunar surface. A "lunar flyer," a one-man rocket vehicle, will enable them to range up to six miles from the LM and scale cliffs 500 ft. high. Less advanced but coming along is a 750-lb. "lunar rover," a tracked vehicle with a range...
...where the New Yorker study demanded the cruel precision of an Evelyn Waugh, Wolfe stuffed in the vitality of a Rabelais. As they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken on a more structured approach (and he is now working on a reportorial novel), but he will always remain the great journalist of kitsch. He is the chronicler of modern America's myths, and myths have a tendency to go berserk--even as they are being told...
Only matches with weak Dartmouth and Yale teams remain on the schedule, and unless one of coach Jack Barnaby's patented 'acts of God' occur, the Crimson should tie with Penn and Princeton for the E.I.T.A. crown...
...from prosecution to an increasing number of criminals-whether they want it or not-to make them break their oath of omerta and talk. Normally, any witness can refuse to talk on the grounds that his answer may incriminate him. But the Fifth Amendment only permits a man to remain silent if his words might be used against him in criminal court; there is no constitutional guarantee to absolute silence. Thus, if a man refuses to talk after a grand jury agrees to remove the threat of prosecution, he can be jailed for contempt of court...
Despite his apparently subversive opinions, Djilas plans to remain in Yugoslavia. Prohibited from lecturing or publishing there, he lives modestly on his income from books published abroad. Because he cannot afford a car, he has not been able to indulge in his favorite pastime: fishing in the mountains. Still, his status has improved somewhat since the Czechoslovak invasion. Worried about the Soviet threat to himself, Tito has made some gestures of appeasement toward the West. One was to allow Djilas to make a trip to the U.S. last fall...