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...even the MIG-25 cannot fully match Johnson's masterwork, the sleek SR-71 Blackbird, a plane that can fly so high (100,000 ft.) and so fast (2,000 m.p.h. plus) that it was able to cruise near Peking's first H-bomb explosion over the Lob Nor desert of northeastern Sinkiang province in 1967. It took photographs and gathered data without being damaged by the blast. After such daring forays, SR-71 pilots would decorate their fuselages with the silhouette of a cobra-like poisonous snake called the habu, which inhabits a Pacific island where...
...example, the Duke of Wellington was dying and Wells Fargo & Co. was being founded in the U.S. There is also a listing of virtually every character Dickens created (more than 2,000, if you are counting), down to the likes of Dick, Tim Linkinwater's blind blackbird in Nicholas Nickleby. Dickens' genius for names needs no underscoring, but to see so many of them together is to be dazzled −and then to be struck again by the fact that many are not so much names as implied biographies. What else needs to be said about a soldier...
...already fallen on the 500-acre campus of Bennington College. Coeds in fringed wool ponchos and muddy boots straggle along the paths to their classes. In Commons Theater, a lone dancer in a leotard is rehearsing her interpretation of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. In Studio 236 of a stone mansion called Jennings Hall, a violinist tirelessly polishes the opening of a Mozart quartet. Among them all walks Gail Parker, a handsome brunette of 29, who so little expected to become Bennington's president that she laughed at the very prospect...
Along the canal, TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark found an almost dreamlike calm, the silence broken by only the cawing of a blackbird and the sound of popular music from a radio in an Israeli bunker. Visitors were greeted by a red-and-white sign in Hebrew: LEISURE AND HOLIDAY VILLAGE. Near by, Israeli troops could see the skyline of the deserted city of Suez shimmering in the haze, and sometimes caught a glimpse of Egyptian soldiers swimming, fishing or making occasional threatening gestures in their direction. For their part, the Israelis tended tomato patches, sunned themselves or played chess...
Ringo's two albums serve only to reinforce our previous picture of him: lovable, but (with the exception of his drumming) a thoroughly inept musical personality. His first release. Sentimental Journey, featured the title tune and eleven other oldies, such as "Night and Day," "Stardust," and "Bye Bye Blackbird," all sung off-key and with a remarkable lack of expressiveness, against a background of lush 1940s Big Band arrangements. The total effect of the record is to make you realize what a great singer Frank Sinatra is within that genre. Ringo's singing is a good standard by which...