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...Soviet citizens, Mark and Natasha Frazer live extremely well. Their five-room apartment in a new building in the center of Moscow has a TV set, an upright piano and a big black dog named Doll. Instead of buying the shoddy, ill-fitting Russian clothes, the family imports its wardrobe from London. Mark, whose Russian is excellent, goes regularly to his job as editor of the Soviet monthly, International Affairs; Natasha edits the translations of Russian stories in the biweekly English-language newspaper, Moscow News. Their children. Fergus, 13, Donald, 11, and Melinda, 6, have spent three years at Soviet...
...kerosene, is designed to deliver a hydrogen warhead of megaton dimensions at a speed of about 14,000 m.p.h. to a target five miles in diameter at a 5,500-mile range. Atlas has 300,000 parts, is so thin-skinned that it must be pressurized to stand upright; its three engines, simultaneously ignited on the ground, can generate a total thrust of between 300,000 and 400,000 lbs., or roughly what it took the Soviets to put up Sputnik II; its snub nose cone is designed to withstand the intense heat of reentry into the earth...
ROBOT BAG-FILLER for supermarkets is being tested by Kroger Co. to end bottlenecks at check-out counter. The ideai bag lies on side next to cashier, and conveyor belt slides groceries into bag. When full, bag pops upright, is ready to be carried away...
...Robert Motherwell's entry-loud, messy, vigorous and oblique. Part of the title-Je t'aime, No. 11-A-was scrawled with grey mud against a background of black and orange bars. Beneath the letters was a bloody smear, at the point of what might be an upright brush. It did seem an odd way to say: "I love...
Patterson found his feet before Referee Tommy found his tongue. The 22-year-old pro (6 ft., 187 Ibs.) spent the next four rounds bouncing the big (6 ft. 1¼ in., 202 lbs.) Olympic champion (28) off the canvas. In the intervals when Rademacher was upright, Floyd showed signs of solicitude almost shocking in an honest fistfighter; he waltzed the challenger around, cuffed him into position, held him erect as if part of his job was to make Pete look good. In the sixth round, after seven knockdowns. Rademacher was a rubber-legged wreck and had taken...