Word: ruts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side of the rover in pictures transmitted from onboard TV cameras. To avert disabling accidents, Lunokhod has a number of safety features. It can, for instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels becomes stuck in a lunar rut. If the wheel cannot be worked free, the ground controllers can fire a small explosive charge, disconnecting it from the drive shaft and allowing it to spin freely. In fact, the vehicle can move either forward or backward with two wheels out of action on each side...
...ready to try. Margaret Sias, a 27-year-old black mother of four with a diploma in "beauty culture" from a Mississippi high school, enrolled "because I'm tired of working in the five-and-dime. Regardless of color, we poor people want to get out of our rut and help others around us start moving." Said Nancy Vincenty, who had planned on being a clerk-typist before she heard of open admissions: "If you want to go to college and don't think you'll ever be able to, and suddenly you get the chance...
...Richardson plays the Kev. Anderson, who, though some twenty years his wife's senior, is vigorous and by no means in a rut Particularly admirable are the subtle vocal inflections that Richardson brings to his role. It is into the clergyman's mouth that Shaw-leaving nothing to the audience-puts the play's message, albeit one hardly characteristic of a sermonizing minister: "This foolish young man boasted himself the Devil's Disciple; but when the hour of trial came to him, he found that it was his destiny to suffer and be faithful to the death. I thought myself...
...chassis adjustments, and everyday ?? started to come together. He wou?? ?? in the middle of the first row, and st?? ??ticians figured that if he and pole ?? Al Unser had raced together, at the of the ten mile trial, Unser would ?? won by only two and a half feet. Rut??ford looked pretty happy for a man ?? had just lost $20,000 by two and a ???? was an impressive effort, and ?? one seems to be very pleased for ?? Still, when the car was run full ?? in a race setup, there were four five cars that were faster. Rutherford ?? pull another suprise...
...tastes run more toward Günter Grass, but fiction buff Mrs. Willy Brandt, wife of the West German Chancellor, conscientiously boned up on the American novel before visiting Washington with her husband. Rut Brandt's reading choice: Jacqueline Susann's lurid Valley of the Dolls...