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...rest of Gemini 5's flight was far from smooth. Because of the loss of thruster fuel, Kraft ordered the astronauts to limit their use of the jets and go into a drifting, tumbling flight. They had to scrub some of the remaining photographic experiments that required them to use the thrusters to get into a picture-taking position. Ground control was also worrying about the fuel-cell system again. The process of generating electricity by mixing hydrogen with oxygen was producing much too much of that inevitable byproduct: water. Ground control feared that the spacecraft was running...
...long and didn't have a single hazard. That was long before the days of golf carts, of course, but the maharajah didn't walk a step. He rode in a howdah on an elephant. Half a dozen servants marched behind, armed with rakes and spades to smooth out the divots that the elephant made...
Madder than Hell. Of all his NACA work, Kraft is proudest of a system that he and Phillips devised to smooth out flights in rough air. They redesigned an old twin-engine Beechcraft C45 and fitted it with automatic controls that reduced the plane's lift when it was hit by an upward gust, increased it when hit by a down draft. The system worked well, but commercial aircraft builders considered it too heavy and expensive−a decision that still infuriates Kraft. "It makes me madder than hell when I fly and have to bounce around," he complains...
...them, the stalled South Vietnamese task force, now moving again, found that Communist resistance was melting away, pushed into Due Co with no trouble. "Hammer & Anvil." In the wet, checkered flats of the Mekong Delta, American airmen and South Vietnamese ground troops combined mobility with killing power in a smooth "hammer and anvil" operation near Can Tho. Four companies of South Vietnamese, acting as the "hammer," drove a battalion of Viet Cong ahead...
...ritual cabalistic murder in a sacred wood, and strongly hinting that Henry himself was doing the Devil's work as much as Becket was doing God's. Since Thomas is fiction, not history, Author Mydans need not apologize for her liberties. Nor for her writing, which is smooth when Becket walks in piety and muscular when he is routing the chivalry of France for his king...