Word: aloftness
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...because the cost of sending dividend checks and providing other services to all those one-share stockholders amounts to $100,000 a year, Playboy has decided to discourage souvenir collectors by issuing new certificates. Printed for the first time last week, the shares depict a "classically styled" woman holding aloft a globe to symbolize the company's international ambitions. Most notably, she is robed in a long, flowing gown...
...solar-powered electric car that in 1987 won a 1,867-mile race across Australia against 23 competitors, averaging 41 m.p.h. and beating the second-place finisher by two days; the Pointer, a 9 lb., battery-powered, TV- equipped observation aircraft that can be launched by hand, remain aloft for 75 minutes, transmitting back to the ground whatever it sees, and then make a soft landing; the General Motors Impact, a sleek, battery-powered electric car that can accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h...
...vision thing" is rare these days, but his has persisted since 1946, when he began pushing the idea of an orbiting telescope. With the Hubble at last aloft, his vision makes ours cosmic...
Neighborly nudge. Not everyone worries about the hazards of releasing balloons. As many as 10,000 of them, carrying cards with pro-environmental messages like "Buy recycled paper," will be sent aloft from Munich's main square. The project's organizers hope for a wind from the southwest that will blow the balloons into highly polluted Czechoslovakia...
...yesterday, on the spot where George Washington first took command of the Continental army, the outward signs of patriotism were all there. The veterans put on their uniforms once again and held their flags aloft. A taped band played martial airs, and the military cannon was fired once again...