Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual, the Russians said not a word about the mission. But last month, when the Soviet tracking ships Gagarin and Komarov sailed out of the Black Sea, passed through the Mediterranean and headed full steam into the Atlantic, Western observers knew that something was up. The vessels are known to carry elaborate electronic gear and serve as communications links between Soviet spacecraft and ground controllers. Last week these suspicions were dramatically confirmed when the Soviets orbited Salyut 2, a 17¾-ton space lab. At week's end, they were expected to launch a smaller Soyuz spacecraft that would...
...Vietnamese entrepreneur, known to G.I.s as "Miss Lee," talked about the future of her business-Saigon's Magic Fingers Steam Massage and Barber Shop. At one time, Miss Lee had 60 girls at work; now she has only seven. "Everything fini," she lamented. No one seemed more downcast than "Momma Bich," who played hostess during the 1960s to some of the wildest parties ever seen in Saigon's back rooms. U.S. Special Forces troops used to lavish $1,000 apiece on parties that lasted a whole weekend. Now fat and aging (she is 32), Momma is left with...
...keynote address to the 1,500 delegates and observers, Graham last week described the gathering as a watershed: "You will never be the same. South Africa will never be the same." Later, before a Johannesburg rally for 80,000, the sometime White House preacher let off some steam about crime and punishment back home. In an eye-for-an-eye spirit, Graham pushed for capital punishment and "the strongest possible rape laws. I believe that a person guilty of rape should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick...
...home, as it burns the life out of the people who exist somehow in its heat. As she becomes more engrossed in her confession, and her humble gratitude, the sun melts and pours down to her hard kneecaps; rusty and almost frozen, down on the unheated wooden floor. Steam and smoke from its melting drift upward and wrap themselves about her loins and her heart; finally centering and being released in the hot tears that fall from her eyes with each deep intake of breath and sharp gasp of sweetly curdled praying words...
...Another system, still being developed, would cope with the nitrogen oxides. * GM's compact Vega may offer a rotary engine as an option on 1975 models. Farther in the future are the steam engine, the gas turbine, the Stirling engine and, perhaps, a battery-powered electric...