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...immediate plans include studying English at the University of Texas and cheering for her football-player boyfriend this week at the annual Longhorns- Oklahoma Sooners game. Pretty quotidian for a girl whose spectacular flips and splits won her four perfect 10s and a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics, right? Not at all, said Mary Lou Retton, 18, as she announced her retirement from full-time gymnastics last week. She wants to "mix with kids my own age" and "get on with my life," albeit at a pace that might exhaust less energetic souls. In addition to taking courses...
...their sale accompanied by fingerprints, certification by the law-enforcement agency and a $200 tax. Possessing an automatic weapon without proper registration is punishable by up to ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each count. Under the relaxed classification, criminals snapped up semiautomatic MAC-10s and quickly converted them into fully automatic machine guns...
...Mary Lou moves over for Carl Lewis as he goes for the rest in his quest for four; the "Gang of 10s" gymnasts hand off to Mary Decker; the swimmers make way for track and field; and the ongoing sports, like boxing and basketball, get down to particular climaxes, as if there have not been plenty already. The little events continue merrily. A problem with the Olympics is that the perfect vault is followed immediately by the perfect encore, by the national anthem, by the next game, race or relay. The gold medals run together...
...semipro boxer, Daly parlayed two World War II military planes (cost: $50,000) into a hugely lucrative charter line in the 1950s. In 1979 he offered one-way, cross-country tickets for $99.99, but major-airline competition, a strike, high fuel costs and a grounded fleet of DC-10s during a safety scare nearly plucked World...
...time, Air Force generals thought they had the answer to a pilot's prayer. Using on-board computers, the Low Altitude Navigation, Targeting Infra-Red Night system, known as LANTIRN, was touted as the new technology that could guide pilots of F-16s and A-10s close to the ground during bad weather or at night. Then, while helping U.S. aces dodge hills and other obstacles, LANTIRN would spot enemy targets and automatically program air-to-ground missiles on an instantaneous search-and-destroy mission. To be sure, the LANTIRN program's price tag was $1 billion...