Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gumdrop's and at one point fell more than 100 miles behind. Then McDivitt began maneuvering back toward the suspenseful rendezvous and docking. Had they not been able to re-enter Gumdrop's cabins, McDivitt and Schweickart would have been doomed. Designed to operate only in the vacuum of space, Spider has no heat shield and would have burned up while re-entering the earth's atmosphere...
Independence does not mean isolation. Stokely Carmichael's militant brand of black power has little sway with Williams. "This is a competitive society. We want to be able to cooperate and have an impact on its economic structure.... I don't have any delusions about operating in a vacuum separate from the rest of the economy...
...sacred right of the young to rebel, Arthur (David Margulies) finds he has nothing to rebel against in his totally permissive home except the permissiveness itself. This is the provocative core of Tango, Slawomir Mrozek's incisive comedy of debased manners, shattered forms, and the contemporary value vacuum. Mrozek, 38, is a Polish writer whose passport was canceled when he condemned Poland's role in the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He now lives in Paris as a stateless person...
...Arthur realizes that appearance is not reality. Old forms are dead forms if a living idea no longer animates them. Starved for a vital idea, Arthur hits on power, "an idea that can live in a vacuum." The rule of force is an idea simple enough for Eddie to grasp, and scarcely has Arthur assumed command of the household than Eddie strikes him dead...
...addition, even the present four-compartment version might provide a roomy orbiting laboratory from which to observe the earth and its weather, or to give astronomers a wonderfully close, clear look at the heavens. Western scientists cited the attractions to biologists and engineers of spacelab experiments in utter vacuum and weightlessness. There also remained the unspoken threat that Moscow could turn a space station into a military weapon...