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...ferry ship and the main workshop, they made their way to a balky, bowl-shaped radar antenna used to measure irregularities in ground temperatures and the shape of the earth. To fix the antenna, the astronauts performed like an acrobatic team-Gibson anchoring himself to a portable foot restraint and holding tightly onto Pogue so that Pogue could get leverage to work. As a mission controller explained: "If you turn a screw in space, it won't turn but you will." After three hours of effort, the antenna was free enough to do 75% of its programmed earth-scanning...
...elected Richard Nixon to another four-year term as President of the U.S. We would like to see him complete that term without harassment from the media Mafia! Please exhibit the restraint you would if he were a Democrat...
...press conference, Cox indicated that he simply could not accept this order, since it totally transformed the rules under which he had been hired. Carefully refusing to be drawn into any blanket characterization of the President's action, Cox praised Elliot Richardson for acting with honesty and restraint throughout the high-stakes negotiations over the tapes. Pointedly, Cox noted that because Richardson had been empowered to select and hire him, he figured that only Richardson could dismiss him. He indicated clearly that he had no intention of resigning. Cox returned to his office, sipped a beer, and replied...
Many neutral and European analysts agree with the Kissinger view that the Soviet Union has acted so far with reasonable restraint, considering its pro-Arab history and commitments. As they see it, the Kremlin has moved in understandable self-interest to regain influence in the Middle East, after being so unceremoniously kicked out of Egypt by Sadat in 1972. Now Arab officialdom is ringing with praise of the Russians. Yet it is not in the Soviet interest, in this view, for Moscow to push for a mortal blow at Israel. That not only would clash head-on with U.S. interests...
...guilt, and they are never more than temporarily unhappy: more frequent and more intense sex can solve any passing malaise. But here, the pleasures of the flesh are but harbingers of the coffin, and Ferreri's pestilential houseparty is, finally, a warning, an exemplum, an inverse appreciation of bourgeois restraint...