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Many meetings then took place to keep the true story from emerging. Magruder said the most frequent participants were Mitchell, Dean, LaRue and himself, with Mardian only a shade less active. The decision was made to make it appear that Liddy had planned and directed the affair alone...
Anderson's taste in satire is sometimes a shade too obvious, and he shares with Ford a sentimentality that can play him false, but the very impact and size of the movie (about three hours long) seem to dwarf even its mistakes. What will be remembered is not the occasional false steps but the prevailing tone of high spirits and ferocious humor in such scenes as a sex show behind a respectable hotel, or a trade meeting with an emerging African nation that manages to be both hilarious and horrifying...
...their second option, the astronauts also carried into space a canopy rigged to a makeshift A-frame. But its deployment would require a more difficult space walk from the exit in Skylab's airlock module. As a third option, the Apollo command module carried the "Spinnaker Shade," which had been the original first choice of space officials. They had second thoughts about the sail-like canopy, because they feared that the light jet plumes from the command module's thrusters might fog the still functioning solar wings on the telescope mount. As he hung out of the open...
...however, David Grove, a vice president of IBM, foresees growth in real G.N.P.-that is, production discounted for price boosts-slowing to a meager 2.2%, from 6.4% this year. In the second and third quarters, he predicts, real G.N.P. will rise a shade less than 1%. Corporate profits in 1974, he believes, will drop 3½% below 1973, in painful contrast to a 23% leap this year over 1972. Otto Eckstein elaborates on some of the reasons: housing construction is dropping, runaway auto sales are bound to fall, and a decline in retail sales is "inevitable...
...Kerwin or Weitz will lean out of the hatch and attach three newly designed clamps to the ship-two near Skylab's base, one on the telescope mount. The clamps will be used to anchor lines running to the trapezoid-shaped covering. As the lines are tightened, the shade will be pulled into its proper position like the spinnaker on a sailboat (the analogy especially pleases Conrad, who recently acquired a 34-ft. sloop). If this fails, the crew will try again after they have boarded Skylab. One possibility: two of the astronauts will crawl out of a hatch...