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...drowsy calm of a little town like Sturgis, S. Dak. (pop. 5,300), it is usually easy to notice when even one alien motorcyclist guns into town. But last week 275,000 showed up, along with a camp following of 42 portable tattoo parlors, for the 50th annual Black Hills Motor Classic. Bikers packed motels as far away as Sundance, Wyo., some 40 miles to the west. For seven days, they turned four blocks of Sturgis' Main Street into chopper gridlock, gathering for rock concerts (Allman Brothers, Steppenwolf, BTO), hill-climbing contests, an amateur female topless contest and motorcycle rodeos...
...Yankee ingenuity and derring-do, the pride of the U.S. and the envy of the world. The very mention of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration evoked images of intrepid astronauts walking in space and frolicking on the moon, of sophisticated robot craft swooping past ringed and rocky alien worlds. To millions of people around the globe, the voice of Mission Control was the true Voice of America...
...more than two years, Reagan and Bush officials tried to avoid facing the issue. They treated the former pediatrician, now 63, mainly as an immigration problem, keeping him jailed in Miami as an "excludable alien" while trying to find a country that would accept him. Meanwhile, Florida Republicans pressed for his release. Last week the Justice Department yielded to the pressure, freeing the Castro foe. Explained one official: "The Cuba lobby did it again...
...France, Britain, West Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan -- plus the President of the European Commission. The end of the cold war should make this annual event more important than ever. Millions of people in the industrialized world see foreign business competitors as a greater threat to their security than alien armies...
...understand, just turn up the volume till he does. A man who doesn't speak English is a man who isn't worth speaking to. Robert Byron, the great traveler of the '30s who wrote so feelingly on Islamic culture, got great comic effect by treating every alien he met -- even an American -- as an unintelligible buffoon; and his John Bullish contemporary Evelyn Waugh all but enunciated a Blimp's Code by asserting that no man who knew more than one language could express himself memorably in any. (Take that, Nabokov! Et tu, Samuel Beckett...