Word: sunlights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sail. The heaviest part of OSO is a nine-sided drum containing batteries, radio equipment and position-control apparatus (see diagram). Mounted on a shaft running through the center of the drum is a semicircular "sail" covered on one side with solar cells to make electric power out of sunlight. While OSO was getting its final push from the launching rocket's third stage, both drum and sail were spinning rapidly. After it was fully in orbit, three arms carrying spherical tanks of high-pressure nitrogen swung outward, and small nitrogen jets reduced the spin to a steady...
There is a brief pause, then the curtains open, revealing a portion of Armageddon's principal street. It is totally deserted and sadly run-down, but in the dazzling sunlight posses a lazy, rather Spanish charm...
Reverse Adaptation. Most notable is Romeo and Juliet. Curiously enough, it has been directed by a young Italian, Franco Zeffirelli, who also designed the superb, dusty-streets-and-bright-sunlight Veronese sets. Over the years, productions of the play have steadily stiffened and solidified; the blood has gone out of the sword battles, and even the most passionate of declamations have gradually become dry word arias in a static opera without music. Zeffirelli has changed that. His direction is fresh and fluid despite the inherent difficulties in a play that begins in the stars then plods to an absurd conclusion...
...commanded six light sensors to find the direction of the sun. Then an attitude control system of gyros and small nitrogen gas jets went into action, turning Ranger III until it locked on the still-distant sun, its broad butterfly wings absorbing maximum power from the sunlight. Some three hours later, C.C. & S. started another series of actions that turned the Ranger's rotatable dish antenna toward the receding earth. Radio signals reported success loudly and clearly over the antenna's strong, narrow beam...
...exuberance and Levantine guile. They make a cult of the body, delight in being alive in a land of sea and sunlight. They respect courage and brute force, but have no tradition of political loyalty. Pieds-noirs run after demagogues, but soon lose interest and go back to eying the. girls and sipping anisette at sidewalk cafés. Grumbled a French officer, "Even if they started a revolution, they'd take time out for anisette...