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...Ferrante walk is to know why she meshes so well with the game of soccer. Her nickname, coined by Harvard football trainer Dick Emerson as he watched her walk across the practice field one day this fall, is "Swivel". Swivel, as in Swivel Hips. If there's such a thing as a fluid walk, this is it. Arms swinging at her side, lower body rotating independent of her upper body, she moves as though there isn't a tense muscle in her body...
...week's end, it appeared that they may well have succeeded. With a swivel that jubilant controllers described as "right on the money," the platform brought fading Saturn back onto their TV monitors again. This week they hope to aim the cameras at Phoebe, the planet's outermost moon. Even if the problem recurs, though, it should not spoil the photographic reconnaissance of Uranus or Neptune. The controllers can simply "pan" the cameras by rolling the entire spacecraft with blasts from its small thrusters...
...students in the class of 1982 come from 250 colleges and universities in 46 states and 42 foreign countries. In a typical class, about 75 of them are corralled into a windowless amphitheater, and each takes a swivel chair and puts his name card on his section of a long curving desk. Then comes the work, endless work. The first-year student stays at his desk for three hours in the morning and 1½ hours in the afternoon while the different professors come and go. They teach all the required basic courses-finance, marketing, production and operations management...
...does just about everyone in the audience. Wooroo! Such synchronized celebrations take place nightly at a growing number of movie bars in the South and Northeast, where patrons may chase a good flick-or drown a bad one-with beer, wine or cocktails. Seated in executive-style leather swivel chairs ranged around butcher-block cocktail tables, customers have only to beckon a waitress for refills or to order sandwiches. They manage thus to combine the comforts of home with the fillip of a night out. Indeed, sipping cinemas may be a shot to stimulate the film industry...
...pilot and copilot, Don Schlaht and Dave Maher, swivel their helmeted heads, straining to pick up the flashing lights of the other planes, their own faces dimly lit by the soft red glow from the instrument panel. As the minutes pass, tension shows around their eyes. Schlaht begins to think he will have to turn back to base. We are in a plane that can carry more explosive power than was set off by all the participants of World War II. It looks like a flying shark, and is equipped with electronic gadgets that allow it to make a precision...