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According to its boosters, the Lear Fan could well reshape general aviation technology. The lightweight airframe is made from rolls of graphite mixed with epoxy resin wrapped around molds like vinyl wallpaper and then baked under pressure in an oven the size of a boxcar. The unpainted fuselage looks like a black plastic drainpipe but it is as tough as titanium; only carbide-tipped drills can cut through it. Pratt & Whitney engines concealed in each side of the plane drive the distinctive 90-in. propeller sticking out of the back of the plane. Because it weighs only...
...responsibility, something Cummings made a career of avoiding. Richard Kennedy's fat, workmanlike and affectionate book, Dreams in the Mirror, is the first full-scale scholarly biography of the poet. Partly because of Cummings' character, reading it is a bit like wrestling in a boxcar full of feathers. The cargo is ticklish, and there is precious little weight for the volume...
...Houston and breeds livestock. Besides cattle and horses, art by the likes of Frederic Remington was up for bids. At evening's end $507,400 worth of paintings and livestock had been sold. Best price paid for an animal: $26,000 for Connally's bull Boxcar...
...Boxcar discovery: requests for every remotely relevant document. Also known as "fishing expeditions" and "give us the warehouse," discovery involves use (or abuse) of pretrial procedural rules to delay and wear down the other side...
...admirable, and one is memorable. At one point a barbed-wire barrier must be erected to keep desperate would-be riders off the train. The barrier is set up, and then, with a slow, ghastly insistence, the train ad vances on it until all the women in the boxcar seem to be impaled on the wire...