Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While most of the folks back home were sweltering in a heat wave, America's favorite fluffhead got caught in a gust of wind straight off the steppes, or anyway at the foot of Gorky Street in Moscow, and found her umbrella abruptly demolished. Goldie Hawn had turned up to "get into some young people's heads" and find out what it would be like to be "the girl from Petrovka." That will be her next role in a movie about a Soviet Holly Golightly who falls in love with an American correspondent (Hal Holbrook). Goldie quickly became...
...celebrated his 80th birthday at a monstrous bash last week. Like many another octogenarian, he spent much of the next day rocking in his chair. But this was no porch rocker; it was the spring-backed executive chair in the busy Chicago branch office of the Menninger Foundation, an umbrella organization for a multitude of psychiatric services. By 11 a.m. Menninger had already conferred with a number of people, including a publisher who is bringing out one of his three books for 1973. Besides a technical work, Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique (Basic Books; $7.95), rewritten with Dr. Philip Holzman...
...saying whether the French would be any more eager to put Paris on the line for Berlin. At any rate Europeans are anxious to have assurances of a U.S. nuclear umbrella. It was partly to allay that anxiety that Washington invited West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel to Washington last week for hastily arranged talks with Nixon and Kissinger. Scheel presumably re-emphasized German fears that the Nixon-Brezhnev agreement robs NATO of nuclear credibility and opens the door to Soviet blackmail...
Until the failure, it had seemed that the astronauts had triumphed over almost insurmountable difficulties. Finally docking with Skylab after five attempts, they had struggled for three hours in 125° temperatures to erect an umbrella-like sunshade over the area where Skylab had lost its micrometeoroid and thermal shielding. The makeshift solution worked. Within a few days, temperatures in the workshop dropped to the low 80s and the astronauts, who had been spending most of their time aboard the Apollo command module, could take up residence in Skylab...
...weightlessness can be simulated; the astronauts found that it was possible to deploy the devices. But NASA gave top priority to a third, untested device: the so-called "parasol" canopy. One reason: the astronauts would not have to leave Skylab to put it in place. Resembling a beach umbrella, the canopy is made up of a 22-by-24-ft. sheet of aluminized Mylar and nylon attached to a long pole consisting of seven 4-ft. sections. An astronaut could extend the pole and sheet out of a small airlock in the middle of the Orbital Workshop's exposed...