Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House. $12.50. Although the camping season ended some years ago when Susan Sontag explained it all, these selections from the comic-strip adventures of Buck and Wilma, "the blue-eyed, golden-haired, high-spirited young soldier-girl," are better late than never. Killer Kane, the Red Mongols, sexy space gear, baroque weaponry and quaint racial slurs-it's all here, from Buck's awakening after 500 years of suspended animation to his inconclusive battle with the Atomites...
...Keep going, baby"), Conrad tapped on the plutonium core, which had become stuck in its protective cask. Finally loosened, the core was removed and inserted into the generator. Without the core, the generator would have been unable to provide electricity to power ALSEP's experiments and its radio gear...
...craft proceeded on a long coast to the moon. Before they bedded down for their first night in space, Conrad and Bean made an unscheduled inspection of Intrepid while Astronaut Gordon remained at the controls of the command module. To their relief, the LM's electronic gear had also withstood the sudden pulse of current. By now the astronauts were in such high spirits that they asked Mission Control to replay the tense communications of the first few seconds. "We're still laughing, trying to remember what we said and did," said Conrad...
...Assault ships, designed to launch landing craft and helicopters, are being built at Lockheed's Seattle yard. The seven ships were priced at $25 million each when the contract was signed in 1963. There have been many design changes, late delivery of gear, and the usual toll of inflation. Lockheed has not yet submitted its claim for what promises to be a large overrun, and the Navy is keeping its own estimate secret-while budgeting for the assault ships in its total overrun account...
...impossible without complete merger. Harvard now has jurisdiction over Radcliffe students only in the classrooms, while total legal responsibility elsewhere belongs to Radcliffe. In a speech last month. Pusey softened his stand and said that coed housing would be possible "without complete merger." Since then, students have shifted full gear on coed plans. "We're acting as if the President of the University didn't exist," one coed housing planner said recently...