Word: aluminum
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America's posties will soon be getting new wheels. The U.S. Postal Service disclosed last week that it will buy a fleet of modernistic aluminum vans from Bethpage, N.Y.-based Grumman to replace the familiar red-white-and-blue AM General Jeeps and trucks that deliver mail on U.S. streets. The $1.1 billion contract, the largest vehicle purchase in Postal Service history, calls for 99,150 new vans to hit the road between...
...that rises like a shimmering mirage above the turquoise waters of the gulf. Mile after mile of silver pipes snake across the sands at Jubail, and block after block of beige-colored bungalows fill its residential sector. From Jubail's plants come chemicals and fertilizers as well as iron, aluminum and steel. Planners expect the community to grow from the 30,000 residential workers it now houses to 300,000 by the year...
From the age of eight, Gooden and his closest neighborhood friend, Floyd Youmans, filled Tampa's afternoons with pepper. Using a battered aluminum can for a ball, they waged endless rounds of home-run derby or argued themselves angry over a game called Strikeout that featured a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. "Just me and him," Youmans whispers conspiratorially. "We weren't supposed to--the coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew...
...biggest surprise came from New Zealand, which entered two innovative boats built not of wood or aluminum like traditional twelves but of fiber glass, prompting an instant nickname: plastic fantastics. One of the pair, the New Zealand II, performed remarkably, coming almost directly from the boat shed to finish second in the series. An entry sponsored by the French photo processing company Kis also broke new ground of a sort, winning special permission from rule-makers to hoist a spinnaker emblazoned with its lead entry's racy name: French Kiss. She came in fifth...
...three feet where an oven used to be. Mallory explains he has no use for an oven; the hot plate on the sink is more than adequate for Michael and him. Beneath the sink all the drawers of the kitchen cabinet have been pulled out, leaving holes. In an aluminum pie plate on the table, cigarette ashes mix with the remains of a crust. The ceiling is water-stained around a circular fluorescent bulb. The walls are yellow, sallow in the darkening room...