Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Hotel Company called up tanks, the V.C. knocked them out with .75-mm. recoilless rifles. An armored supply column got lost, found itself deep in enemy territory. Suddenly, from all sides of the column came mortar and heavy-artillery fire. Three shells hit the leading tank, and when its driver tried to squeeze out an escape hatch, he was riddled with bullets. Three amtraks backed into a deep paddy and bogged down, a fourth was knocked out when a V.C. dropped a grenade down its hatch. "O.K., men, we're marines, let's do the job," shouted...
...cell's hydrogen and oxygen are both stored in spherical tanks in a supercold liquid state. Warmed by electric heaters, they turn to gas, build up pressure and push themselves into the cells. And those heaters are among the least complicated devices on the spacecraft: a filament of gold-plated wire curving around the tank. The same type of device is a veteran of all the manned Mer cury and Gemini flights, being used to convert liquid oxygen into gas for the astronauts to breathe. When oxygen pressure started falling in Gemini 5, it was a sure sign that...
Anxious Quiet. Following instructions from Houston, Cooper and Conrad worked desperately to rejuvenate the balky fuel-cell system. Neither the automatic nor the manual controls for the oxygen tank heater would function. And getting at the heater itself was out of the question. Located in the adapter section, it was inaccessible to the crew. The astronauts flicked switches off and on again and again, trying somehow to stir the system into life. They maneuvered the spacecraft around so chat its blunt end, which housed the fuel-cell system, would get the full impact of the sun's rays...
...plenty of other new patterns to choose from. Stephanie has a green, orange and yellow flame-patterned print that comes in a bra ($1.59), panty girdle ($3.99) and elastic long John ($5.95) for use under slacks; Warner's has put a tiger's stripes on its tank suit ($19), also offers a cobra-skin pattern if stripes don't suit. Most stylish are the Courreges-inspired underpinnings of Formfit-Rogers. The full slip ($9), in white with black banding, can easily double as a nightdress or a playdress...
...voracious appetite for hyacinths, has proved a devastating enemy to the plant. Manatees have been placed in bodies of water as a kind of marine lawnmower. They, too, have a drawback: they are listless lovers and slow to reproduce. Two of the sea cows were kept in the same tank for two years. They have no progeny to show for their long affair...