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...involving Artoo Detoo, Threepio and Chewbacca. Lucas' imagination once again lays out its bounty in a lavish and wonderful spread. The invention of Yoda alone would keep many film makers bragging for years. Lucas adds ice monsters, strange-looking beasts-half dinosaur, half llama-that can be ridden bareback, the city in the clouds, and at least one surprising twist of plot involving Luke and Darth Vader. Unfortunately, there are not enough of those other bubbles of fun and spontaneity that made Star Wars so memorable...
...claims of their several cities to the next year's conventions . . . In the midst of these more diffident invitations, the golden doors of the ballroom opened with a blatting of trumpets, and a circus parade rolled in. It was composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers . . . As a clown, beating a bass drum, extraordinarily happy and noisy, was Babbitt...
...mile flight from Urumchi to the Soviet border discloses the Chinese vulnerability to incursions from the north. The Dzungarian basin spreads into a hard, flat, open plain beneath the P'o-lo-k'o-nu Mountains, ideal tank and tactical-air-strike country. Kazakh boys who ride bareback through the surrounding pine forests must beware the leopards that still roam the foothills of the T'ien Shan range. The border-control point is a 600-yd.-long bridge across the Ili River, where the Chinese claim that the Soviets continue to infiltrate agents. They also say border...
...Later he flew airmail between St. Louis and Chicago, which in the primitive conditions of the '20s was about as hazardous as riding the Pony Express through a tribe of angry Comanches. A natural flyer, with as certain a feel for the whim of his plane as a bareback rider for his horse, he was ineluctably drawn to aviation's biggest prize: $25,000, offered by a New York hotel owner for the first successful completion of the 3,600-mile solo flight between New York and Paris. With the backing of some young St. Louis businessmen...
...have organized their own circuit. With only 30 rodeos and prize money so limited that the leading competitors earn less than $1,000 a year, the cowgirl tour is struggling to gain parity. "We're out there riding the same broncs and bulls the men are," says top Bareback Rider Benjie Prudom. "There's no reason we shouldn't get paid the same." Indeed, Prudom, a criminal-justice major at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, trains as hard as any cowboy, lifting weights (she bench-presses 140 lbs.), doing push-ups and riding. The women...