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...masters had to stop its 92-r.p.m. spin, which would have wrapped the antennas uselessly around the exterior of the satellite. Two ¾-lb. "Yoyo" weights were released at the end of 27-ft. wires, reducing the satellite's rate of spin like a whirling skater who slows himself down by extending his arms. Their task accomplished, the Yo-yos were cut loose to drift in space. RAE-A's remaining rotation was stopped when three electromagnetic coils were energized and the spacecraft lined up with the earth's magnetic field. To eliminate oscillations caused by gravitational...
...hadn't thought that she was involved in international high finance, yet when Figure Skater Peggy Fleming, 19, met a smiling President Johnson in the White House Rose Garden, he hailed her as "someone who has helped us with the gold drain." Peggy had, indeed, as the only American to bring home an Olympic gold medal from Grenoble. And now a properly appreciative L.B.J. added a decoration of his own, reaching up to pluck a magnolia blossom from a tree and pinning it on Peggy's dress...
...replaced his brother as team leader. Although he was not as graceful a skater as Bill, Bob developed into a masterful play-maker. During his junior year, he contributed 37 assists and 36 goals as the Crimson swept to a perfect 8-0 record in the Ivy League and a fourth place in the NCAA tournament...
...score so often (an average of two goals every three games), Bobby Hull would still be fearsome. There is not one ounce of excess baggage on his 5-ft. 10-in., 195-lb. frame; physiologists have called him "the perfect mesomorph." He is the fastest skater in the N.H.L. (28.3 m.p.h. with the puck, 29.7 m.p.h. without), and by far the fastest shot: his "slap shot," delivered from a full windup, has been clocked at 118.3 m.p.h., nearly 35 m.p.h. above the league average, and his "wrist shot," fired with just a flick of the stick, zings along...
...loves small children can't be all good. The public image aside, Bobby Hull is a pure, all-wool, elemental man, a stogie-chomping, beer-drinking, four-letter guy who said "I do" to a hasty marriage at 18. His second wife, Joanne, is a onetime figure skater; in eight years of boisterously happy marriage, the two of them have worked up a boffo routine. He comes home growling like a bear. She roars back...