Word: airport
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Over the next five years, the three set out to raise enough money to design, build and fly Voyager. The project took shape in Hangar 77 at Mojave Airport; the plane was put together by dedicated volunteers and a few paid workers who were determined to assemble a dream. Dick Rutan became the driving force; two years ago he bought out his brother's half interest in the plane. He is proud that the group is accomplishing its mission without one cent of Government money...
What is it like to live in these times? Take a tour with me. The country feels enormous still, and various, in spite of airport roads that look identical everywhere and stores that unite the country in a fast-food mythology. The electric glass of Dallas could not be mistaken for Boston's pedagogical tweed or San Diego's white sail. In New York City this season, the sky dims by 4 in the afternoon, and the shop lights pop on like gold-and-white lanterns...
...customs agents at Geneva's airport have seen just about everything. But when ten heavy sacks arrived for Catrel, a Swiss industrial-research firm, they were a bit surprised. The contents of the shipment: 1,000 lbs. of grapefruit rinds, hamburger scraps, coat hangers and other junk discarded by California homeowners...
...this urge are what saved the Gare d'Orsay. Pompidou had ordered the razing and redevelopment of the vast central food market known as Les Halles -- Zola's "belly of Paris." The market, which had formed a bolus of stalled, honking traffic, was shifted to Rungis, near Orly Airport. In its place Paris received, among other things, a giant structure that looked like an oil refinery and was to be the biggest cultureprocessing plant in Europe: the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, otherwise known as the Centre Pompidou or, after its site adjacent to Les Halles, Beaubourg...
...verdict and the subsequent sanctions may not be the end of international embarrassment for Damascus. A Turkish court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant for a Syrian diplomat accused of ordering the murder of a Jordanian diplomat in 1985. In addition, Austrian and Italian authorities investigating last December's airport massacres in Vienna and Rome are seeking indications of Syrian involvement...