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...three retrorockets had been fired, nudging the capsule out of orbit. If working properly, the light would also mean that the autopilot system was set to start the capsule rolling slowly. The roll, imparting a corkscrew motion as the capsule bores into the atmosphere, would produce a smoother reentry...
There wasn't much doubt about the German victory in the finals, however, as they welcomed the afternoon's smoother conditions for their extremely high stroke and never gave the Big Red a chance...
Eastern railroads answer that their percentages are higher because three times as many cars terminate in their areas as move out. Car-short lines charge that the Eastern roads like to pirate the new, bigger, smoother-riding cars now going into service because they are easier to handle and unload. "Any new car that you build that leaves this area," complains Illinois' Wilson, "you don't see again for a long time." To discourage boxcar piracy, the Association of American Railroads will raise the rate for daily rentals, but it has little power to police its own members...
...Americans drink 80% of the world's whisky, and the slightest change in their drinking tastes is anxiously watched by the $6 billion U.S. liquor industry. For some time now, the industry has been adjusting to the public shift toward something called lightness-a combination of smoother flavor, lower alcoholic strength and lighter color. The most dramatic and expensive response to this trend has just been made by Seagrams, the world's biggest distiller. Seagrams is retiring its high-selling ($50 million a year) Calvert Reserve and replacing it with a lighter blend of 50 whiskies and aged...
...poems of Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson Barker, which from their position at the beginning of the issue are clearly intended to be the Advocate's star turn, show a smoother, firmer, and less meandering use of language than Leubdorf's. But here too one finds the same awkward and acutely self conscious toying with metaphysics. One poem she begins: "The numbered summers fuse to form a tense,/Past-present: separate identities/Abandoned on the beach..."; another "A small departure will elude excuse,/The implication of its vagrancy/Impugn the settlement of old abuse/That makes of larger vice good company." Mrs. Barker presents these...