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...this point, instruments aboard Viking will begin sniffing the atmosphere, counting charged particles and identifying the gases as the craft descends. Farther down, other instruments will begin recording temperature, pressure and density of the thickening atmosphere. At 19,000 ft., now descending at only 560 m.p.h., the lander will unfurl a parachute, jettison its aeroshell and extend its landing legs...
...maturing," says Lee, who has matured quite a bit himself from the days when he watched pro football in San Francisco, where he grew up. While a teenager, he worked as a part-time Associated Press sports reporter and diagrammed plays for his high school team. Now Atlanta fans unfurl banners proclaiming themselves LEE'S LEGION. And, quite unexpectedly, they may find that their general has a chance to do battle in the Super Bowl...
...kind of phrases he lampoons in a piece on reviewers' jargon, Baker is a man of range, sensitive intellect and fertile imagination. He is also a fine stylist whose columns frequently unfurl to defend the language against corruption. But to read 212 pages of him at a sitting is a mistake. He is most effective in his newspaper, where the reader can wade expectantly toward him through bloated accounts of disaster, inhumanity, avarice and hypocrisy. Russell Baker can then best be appreciated doing what a good humorist has always done: writing to preserve his sanity for at least...
...know instantly. When he consults a black driver who lives above a Panther storefront, Duke's schemes are electronically processed. T-men tune in on his conversations with Angelo; even the apartment of Duke's mistress (Dyan Cannon) is tapped by a jealous lover. As the plans unfurl, the eavesdroppers are heavily lampooned. America, in a supposedly shattering revelation, is shown to be not only a racist society but also a bugged...
...vanished time of simpler Fourths of July. Woodrow Wilson proudly hailed the American flag as "the emblem of our unity." For many Americans on Independence Day 1970, to unfurl, or not unfurl, the front-porch flag is an unsettling dilemma. What was once an easy, automatic rite of patriotism has become in many cases a considered political act, burdened with over tones and conflicting meanings greater than Old Glory was ever meant to bear...