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...Arizona, Bach guided the plane down for a landing amidst startled boaters to snatch an afternoon swim in Lake Havasu. Over Kansas, he handed Willwerth the controls. "I immediately learned the true meaning of sweaty palms," recalls Willwerth, who up to that moment had three fewer hours behind the wheel than Foote. Willwerth gamely hung on over three states before gratefully surrendering the controls in time for Bach to handle the landing...
...were to convince us, we would have to feel there was some spirit on her part. But Rosemonde is incredibly immature -- spoiled, willful, and foolish. At the end of the film, we see her swirling amidst the Geneva crowd, Free and Happy. Loving Life...
Angelo, who did the principal reporting on both women, has also written about the activities of most of Washington's prominent politicians, including the men behind Pat and Eleanor. She began following Mrs. McGovern down the political trail during the Democratic primaries last spring. Last week, amidst a hectic schedule of campaign visits to youth groups, senior citizens, day-care centers and factories, the two sat down again for a private chat in the McGovern hotel suite in White Plains...
...carved stone columns amidst the ruins of a Cozumel building at left are part of the finds uncovered by a joint Harvard-University of Arizona archaeological team this summer on the Mexican island...
...Essentially left behind by the urban industrial age, the rural Pentecostalists, usually very young or very old and poor in either case, see no hope for self-advancement in the reality of changing American life. They are struggling to adhere to the values by which they have been raised amidst an era of upheaval in which those values have been betrayed, Theirs is a last ditch effort to fend off the Powers of the unknown ("Can Jesus deliver a drug addict? Can Jesus deliver a homosexual?") and to realize symbolic economic success in traditional ways ("I resolved to use that...