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Bean will emerge about 35 minutes later to join his skipper in preliminary chores. Together they will set up a large, umbrella-shaped S-band antenna (for better TV transmissions), place the TV camera on a tripod about 20 ft. from the LM, unfurl a solar wind experiment to trap high-speed particles from the sun on aluminum foil, and -in the only ceremony planned for the mission-plant a U.S. flag...
...Prague's baroque Lesser Town, 500 people gather in a square, and a young man mounts a box to unfurl a banner reading: DEMOCRATIZATION MUST BECOME DEMOCRACY. Everyone starts cheering wildly. Along the glittering Vltava River, bearded young men and miniskirted girls collect signatures on a petition demanding that the government resume diplomatic relations with Israel; after they have collected 30,000 signatures, they are invited to the office of the foreign ministry to have tea and cake-and discuss government policy. At a meeting in the city of Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovak intellectuals face an audience of workers...
Mapping the Milky Way. This week the satellite will receive a radio command from earth and begin to unfurl its giant antenna system. Carried as flat ribbons of silver-plated copper alloy coiled on spools within the satellite, the tubular legs will be formed as the outer edges of the unwinding ribbons curl towards each other and meet. Tiny tabs along the edges of the ribbon will hook together as the tubeb forms, adding rigidity. At first, the antenna legs will be extended only 358 ft. from the craft, to test their stability. Then they will grow to their full...
...hanging from a hornbeam tree in the woods south of Prague, an empty bottle of cheap wine at his feet. On an island in the Vltava River, more than 3,000 people imprisoned and tortured when the Communists first came to power met to praise Dubček and unfurl a white banner that read: "Never let it happen again...
...objections recede into the past, counter-revolutionary sniping from a country Harvard has already broken away from, let us join our hands, unfurl our reading lists, and march forward together into the sunlit corridors of Lamont Library! Harvard and Radcliffe fraternite forever...