Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should a mission run into trouble, the shuttle has some unique rescue equipment. Stranded or disabled crewmen will be transferred to a rescue shuttle in pressurized 33-in.-diameter spheres of Neoprene-coated nylon. The transfer will be made either on a clothes-line-and-pulley system or by a cranelike device operated by pressure-suited, space-walking astronauts from one of the ships...
When the fires died down, the Belknap's casualties were swung aboard the Ricketts in stretchers. Some of the men were so badly burned that they lost strips of skin during the transfer...
...Estaing, West German President Walter Scheel, U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Britain's Prince Philip, Spain's new King had just decorously assumed power during an official anointing ceremony at the Church of San Jerónimo in Madrid. The façade of an orderly transfer of power from Francisco Franco to his designated heir was persuasively preserved, but a hundred questions were left hanging over the elaborate ritual of pomp and prayer...
...while facing a probable turndown or, at best, many months of delay before leaving. These people depend heavily on donations from relatives and friends abroad to survive. Gifts of money are already subject to an exorbitant 65% tax. But on Jan. 1, a new regulation will end completely the transfer of the dollar gift vouchers that have been redeemable in food and clothing...
...haven't been able to sleep for weeks," lamented one Crimson graduate student gladiator. "Yes," agreed another, "If we lose, they'll transfer us to Montana State...