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Exasperated, Mission Control radioed one more suggestion. Roosa was told to close in slowly on the LM, then fire his small control rockets, or thrusters, to give the command ship a sudden forward jolt. Simultaneously, he was to retract the recalcitrant probe. That way, he could eliminate the nonworking piece of equipment from the operation; the astronauts would rely instead on the two mated collars on each ship to make a so-called "hard" dock. Not only did the two collars lock, but the balky latches also sprang loose and caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: Man's Triumphant Return | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

...next day the Berrigans issued a statement through their lawyers demanding that Hoover either "prosecuteus or publicly retract the charges he has made...

Author: By Jeffrey L. Baker, | Title: Kunstler Hits Harrisburg Charges | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...couple requested permission to be married, by a rabbi, in the University's interdenominational Church. The request was denied, and Pusey explained the denial by proposing the thesis that Harvard was not, strictly speaking, interdenominational, but interdenominational-Christian. Under immense pressure from every quarter, the Corporation was compelled to retract the stand, and open the Church to all comers...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: The Pusey Years: Through Change and Storm | 1/12/1971 | See Source »

...Pocket. The solution, Pedrick decided, was to find a way to keep the ball from going into its spin-even if it is imperfectly hit. His proposed club would do just that. Its secret: an array of tiny retractable blades jutting out from the club's metal face and imbedded in a soft elastic material (see diagram). Whenever the club made contact with the ball, some of the blades would retract, forming a small, temporary pocket. The pocket, in effect, would grip the ball and reduce its tendency to spin-regardless of the angle at which the golfer whacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Help for the Duffer | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...Corporation will stop funding the newspaper at the end of this year, and will retract its right to use the name "the Heights." College officials claimed that a recent issue of the publication "raised questions regarding criminal libel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Calls 'Heights' Irresponsible; Revokes Funds for Student Paper | 3/17/1970 | See Source »

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