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...rocket that soared upward from its launching pad in Texas last week was not very long (37 ft.) or, by modern standards, very fancy. The flight of Conestoga I, an arc 192 miles up and 326 miles out over the Gulf of Mexico, was perfect but fleeting, less than eleven minutes from blastoff to splashdown. The dummy payload was just a 1,100-lb. tank of water. Said Donald ("Deke") Slayton, the former astronaut who was flight director for the launch: "We didn't have a single anomaly in flight...
...eyebrow plucking, no glamorizing. It was a fresh angle, and it worked especially well in the wartime '40s, when frivolous excess was regarded as unpatriotic. The gurgling approval of the women's clubs and pictures like The Bells of St. Mary's and Joan of Arc were almost inevitable...
...bucolic Isle of Man, a tax haven in the Irish Sea, he now runs a multimillion-dollar equine empire, Swettenham Stud, from a 100-room mansion called the Nunnery. Though a reticent man in public, he is hardly that at home. His two trophies from the French Arc de Triomphe wins are the centerpieces on twin dining-room tables. The walls of the bright, airy living room are covered with photos of Sangster, his vivacious second wife Susan (former wife of onetime Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock) and, of course, horses. Out across the 90 acres of manicured lawn...
...Phyllis Schlafly is happy about the ERA'S defeat. She is proud to deny rights to less fortunate women who have only what they can earn. Schlafly is the modern Marie Antoinette. What we needed was a Joan of Arc...
...quest for happiness suffers gargantuan attacks: two family assassinations, two ordinary deaths, a single accident which kills one, blinds another and castrates a third. In addition, there are a number of near car accidents and several mentions of death, fear of dying and "the arc of a life." In the real world, both tragedy and joy occur in smaller doses than in Garp's universe. The film, like Irving's novel, occasionally seems somewhat fantastical and distant as a result. But every time a romance or a killing becomes too outlandish. Garp beams, or bellows, or frets, and his fear...