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...Random Failure. At the same instant, a couple of technicians standing on a level with the craft windows saw a blinding flash inside the ship. Heavy smoke began to seep from the capsule, filling the white room. A workman sprinted across the catwalk leading to the craft, tried desperately to loosen the hatch cover. He was driven back by the intense heat and smoke, but half a dozen other technicians, some wearing face masks and asbestos gloves, raced to help. One or two would try to wrench open the hatch, then fall back from the scorching heat while others struggled...
...hesitation." The Maoists, in fact, have been a minority all along in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, whose excesses are opposed by a majority of Communist Party officials, bureaucrats, local and provincial commissars and apparatchiks, factory managers and often workers. The Maoist-dominated news agencies' own reports revealed flash points of "unprecedented strong resistance" last week all across China. In Sinkiang, the province that contains China's atomic-testing lands and borders on the Soviet Union, 10,000 former soldiers formed an "August First Field Army" to resist Mao's Red Guards. Seizing weapons and ammunition from...
...Elementary and Secondary Education Act was another example. Title I of the act, a $1 billion program to upgrade the schooling of poor children, held vast promise. But the cash it released hit many areas like a flash flood, running off before it could be absorbed. Illinois, for example, was able to use only $52 million out of the $61 million authorized. "It's like having $50 million to spend...
...that switch on and off. By using pliable plastic lamps sewn into the clothes in segments and connected to a rechargeable battery pack worn on the hip, just like Batman, she has been able to produce minidresses with throbbing hearts and pulsating belly stars, as well as pants with flashing vertical side seams and horizontal bands that march up and down the legs in luminous sequence. "They're hyperdelic transsensory experiences," says Diana. Potentiometers on the battery pack allow the wearer to produce from one to twelve flashes per second. The batteries themselves can be recharged by being plugged...
...both sides of the Atlantic, the fast expansion of credit-card systems is paving the way for what may some day be a cashless society. But it won't be a classless society-at least in Europe. Beginning next month, a favored few will be able to flash what promises to be the most patrician card of them all: a plastic ducat bearing the famed five-arrow emblem of the House of Rothschild and the blue-and-yellow racing colors of Guy Edouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild, 57, head of the Paris branch of the family...