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...grandeur. Even if the plane does not make it all the way back, Yeager says, she will still feel a sense of achievement. "If we made the attempt and something happened to the airplane," she said, "I would be satisfied that we at least tried." But Rutan is hell-bent for immortality. As he circles the planet, the names circling in his head are Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. He too aims to fly into history's blue yonder. "Milestones," Rutan says, "are something that can never be broken...
...Europe, World War I -- history's first fully mechanized conflict, a production line of death -- had given climactic form to the image of the bad machine, a Moloch bent on destruction and alienation, that had haunted the imagination of artists and writers through the 19th century. No one was going to see the machine as an unqualified good. But America's role in that distant war had been small, its trauma of human loss slight. With industry booming, Americans found it not just easy but almost obligatory to believe in machine- created Utopias. Their country, wrote the photographer Paul Strand...
...Eichen), ex-apprentice to a gang of nice-guy pirates, is torn between loyalty to his former masters and his moral duty to turn them in. To complicate matters, he has fallen in love with the daughter (Lisa Zeidenberg) of the local Major General (Andrew Gardner) who is bent on the pirates' destruction. How does Frederick escape from this frightfully sticky wicket? Suffice to say that the resolution is as silly as it is stirring...
...elusive boxer -- smart. He doesn't have a high school diploma, but he's on the verge of a master's." Studying the old films, Tyson likes "to look in the background and see all the people who are dead." But he also noticed the way Joe Frazier sometimes bent forward into Ali's flurries; when Marvis Frazier did the same thing, Tyson flattened Joe's son in 30 seconds. "I really believe, deep down in my heart, that I'm the best fighter in the world...
Lean and slightly bent from years of work with hammer and saw, pick and shovel, Graton has sinewy, brown forearms and a powerful grip belying his 77 years...