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...bomb bay work is going on to reconstruct the single hook used to suspend and release the bomb. A normal double hook for bombs was abandoned by the mission planners, who feared, if one malfunctioned, the armed bomb might dangle in the rack like hell on a tether. You remember the day 44 years ago on a college campus when the news came of the Enola Gay's successful drop and the public dawning of the nuclear age, how you sat up most of the summer night talking and wondering...
...foundation of the old European order was the formal creation of two Germanys in 1949 and the decision by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer a few years later to tether West Germany to the Atlantic Alliance. For the Soviet Union, which subjugated East Germany as a satellite and buffer, this meant that any war with the West would occur on German rather than Russian soil. For the other Europeans, it meant a respite from the problem of German militarism. For the U.S., it made possible the creation of a strong NATO alliance to lead the struggle for containing the Soviets...
...freedom not with flight but with flamboyant masquerades. The poignant conceit of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) is a beanery that resembles a kitchen where lonely people can assemble, if only for a meal. The Accidental Tourist (1985), Tyler's most winsome expression of imagination on a short tether, is about a travel writer who hates to travel...
...form of centrifugal force -- to the spacecraft. This might be accomplished by spinning a very large craft around its own axis. Other schemes envision three ships hooked together in a cartwheel-like arrangement that makes three revolutions per minute, or two vehicles attached by a half-mile-long tether rotating through space as the entire system speeds toward Mars. Still another idea is to schedule a daily workout for each crew member inside an on-board centrifuge, where resisting the centrifugal force would simulate working in gravity...
...There's a reason the '60s revival is happening now," wrote Richard Goldstein in an article in The Village Voice in March. "At the end of Reagan's tether, as the economy falters and the yuppie shivers in his power tie, we sense an opening again--but to what...