Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Voyager 2 crossed the rings, the playback showed, the cameras began missing their targets. Somehow the spacecraft's movable "scan platform," which acts as an aiming mechanism for the narrow-and wide-angle cameras as well as several other optical instruments, had slowed, then stuck. The platform could swing up and down but not sideways, leaving Voyager 2's cameras looking out into the dark void of space...
...gears themselves? No one could say, even after hours of patient long-distance troubleshooting (it takes nearly an hour and a half to send a radio command to the far-off spacecraft). By the next day JPL controllers had found they could at least get the frozen platform to swing through a few degrees of arc, though not smoothly or precisely enough to aim the instruments properly. By moving it through ever larger arcs, they hoped that they might eventually work it free. Such tactics helped overcome a similar problem on Voyager 1, caused by a stray bit of plastic...
...middle one, Jerry Ford, 68, was back at Rancho Mirage in California, excavating fairway divots and making final preparations for the Sept. 18 dedication of the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids. He too will then take a swing abroad, stopping off first in London for the Bob Hope British Classic golf tournament and then moving on to Sweden, Denmark and Finland. After that? Stay tuned...
...languorous beauty and a former Gibson Girl, Evelyn Nesbit was dubbed "the girl in the red velvet swing" But she swung a little too much, and her dalliance with Stanford White prompted her husband, Millionaire Socialite Harry K. Thaw, to murder the celebrated architect during a musical-comedy performance on the roof garden atop the White-designed old Madison Square Garden. For the film adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's fictive replay, Ragtime, Director Milos Forman, 49, interviewed hundreds for the part of Nesbit, then settled on Elizabeth McGovern, 20, after he saw her in Ordinary People. The young actress...
...starting to believe that the dollar has become overvalued and will soon begin to slip. Rimmer de Vries, an international monetary expert at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., predicts that the current account, which measures the net international flow of goods and services to and from the U.S., will swing from a $10 billion surplus this year to a $5 billion deficit in 1982. That deficit will in turn drive down the value of the dollar, perhaps by as much...