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Nearing the moon, the astronauts performed yet another new maneuver by firing an explosive tape to knock the panel off a section of the service module called SIM (for scientific instrument module). An innovation on Apollo 15, SIM is literally a high-flying laboratory: it contains eight different scientific instruments, including a tiny (78.5 Ibs.) subsatellite, two spectrometers and two special lunar mapping cameras...
...small, instrument-packed subsatellite will be automatically injected into an orbit around the moon. The tiny package should swing around the moon for more than a year, radioing vital data about the lunar environment. Then Worden was scheduled to climb out-side the spacecraft, edge his way back to SIM and retrieve his valuable film in history's first "walk"' in deep space 200,000 miles from earth. Finally, twelve days after the start of their journey from Cape Kennedy, the astronauts will splash down in the Pacific, ending man's most significant scientific adventure on the moon...
...engagement ring to Scrooge because he has a new passion, for Gain. Briscusse shows the whole courtship to the background of a song called "Happiness Is," or something like that. Pure, thick soup. The level of intelligence is nowhere near an old version of A Christmas Carol, with Alistair Sim, in which the Fezziwig episode was padded much more effectively by having Scrooge ruin Fezziwig and heartlessly take over his business...
...Cambodia, the U.S. invasion tended to obscure that fact in the eyes of other neutrals. Even without the U.S. and South Vietnamese assault, it is hard to say whether Cambodia would have got much help from outside nations. "The war in Viet Nam has gone on too long," says Sim Var, a member of the Cambodian National Assembly. "People have been rendered insensible to suffering. Even war for a just cause fails to arouse them." Whether the Communists wanted to overthrow the Lon Nol government before the invasion is debatable-just as it is uncertain whether they hope...
Black militants and white racists have since carried such struggles far beyond the ring, and a few blacks sim ply reduced the problem to a slogan: "Get Whitey!" But others, perhaps most, say as Bellows says by implication, "Let there be a struggle, but let it be between equals...