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...Cheswick (Peter Fonda), with face as straight (and wooden) as a tongue depressor: "I like the way you say things, Tammy-it's so unusual." In line of duty, Sandra proves to be a Florence Nightmare. She discovers a patient in the process of operating his neck-traction rig, dashes into the room to cut down what she diagnoses as a would-be suicide; she borrows a pair of scissors from the operating room and nearly sends an appendicitis case back to surgery for a reopening when the shears turn up missing in the instrument count. Mercifully, she does...
...Beast. Weeks ago, Atlantis II, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, lowered "The Beast," a weird M.I.T.-designed rig. At the end of the Beast's 9,000-ft. cable, a small echo sounder measured its distance from the bottom. A pair of powerful strobe lights flashed at six-second intervals, and two cameras took pictures. In the eternal darkness at 8,000 ft., they needed no shutters; they merely advanced their film in time for the next flash from the strobes...
...look like Faith 7). In the evening, he was off again to address R.O.T.C. students at nearby Arizona State University, gave them a talk about freedom and the necessity of manned aircraft in the space age, went home again to sip bourbon and water and fiddle with his ham rig. Soon he was talking up his pet Senate bills to two hams in the Pacific's Marshall Islands. When a house guest went off to bed at 2 a.m., Barry and his son Mike, 23, were fiddling with a new kind of stereo tape cartridge. Barry's dinner was still...
Hassan had some alternatives, none of them very pleasant: he could make his own coalition with one of the opposition parties, a solution difficult to achieve without losing royal face. Or he could declare a "recount" of votes and rig the results, a course repugnant to the idealistic monarch. Using the constitution he drafted last year, Hassan could even dissolve the House and forget about the democracy he had promised the nation. Wrestling with his dilemma, the King got little sympathy from the opposition. Jeered National Union Leader Abderrakim Benabid...
...Eliot boat raced with an "Italian rig," having the number four and five men both rowing starboard. This rig is designed to reduce the torque in the middle of a shell resulting from the time delay in the starboard rowers; the world champion German Ratzeburg crew has also adopted...