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...contrast, the follow-up flight of Soyuz 11 was trouble-free from the start. Using improved docking techniques, it easily attached itself to the awkward-looking, tubular-shaped space lab. Upon entering Salyut's trailer-sized interior, Dobrovolsky cheerfully announced: "This place is tremendous. There seems to be no end to it." Through most of the mission, the cosmonauts remained in remarkably good humor. While a TV camera recorded their activities, they performed exercises, engaged in numerous scientific experiments and even cast the first votes from space-affirming their support of the Communist Party's policies...
...importance of orbiting space stations-as platforms to survey the earth, to scan the heavens and eventually to launch manned excursions to the planets. In April the Soviets lofted Salyut, an impressive, 171-ton unmanned collection of scientific instruments (telescopes, spectrometers and other sensing equipment). But the odd, tubular-shaped laboratory, with its stubby, winglike solar panels, settled into such a low initial orbit that its lifetime was reckoned at only a few weeks. Ground controllers eventually raised the orbit a bit, thereby extending Salyut's life. But the first attempt to dock a manned Soyuz with the ship...
SPIRO AGNEW. He "has a neckless, lidded flow to him, with wrap-around hair, a tubular perfection to his suits or golf outfits, quiet, burbling oratory. Subaquatic. He was almost out of sight by campaign's end; but a good sonar system could hear him burrowing ahead, on course...
...vastatrix's deadly advance has given growers throughout Latin America a bad case of coffee nerves. Once the microscopic spores of the fungus settle on a susceptible plant, they send thin, tubular filaments into the leaf. These cause structural damage and also release a toxin that disrupts the life-giving process of photosynthesis. As the sickly patches spread, other leaves catch the infection, and within a year or two the entire plant dies...
...glory of the Aquarium was here. It was the scarlet shrimp, its little transparent legs regretfully descending to the seabed, its filigree antennae brushing the tubular plants nearby; a miniature, delicate, barely perceptible glass sculpture, shyly animate. He was a tenuously fashioned creature, seemingly held together ?? his good nature and preserved from summary consumption by the sea's deference to his harmless beauty-too small and pure to cause jealousy. He was cheerful, diffident, rubicund, a gloryfish...