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Seconds later, the 767 hit the 6,800-ft.-long runway with such force that the nose wheel collapsed under it. Sparks flew and clouds of black smoke trailed from the tires as Pearson locked the brakes. Said Passenger Bryce Bell: "People were screaming, kids were crying." The plane finally came to a stop just 300 yds. short of a cluster of trailers filled with families. The only casualties: several passengers who were slightly injured as they slid down the plane's emergency escape chutes...
Gravity Boots first started becoming popular after the 1980 film American Gigolo showed Star Richard Gere doing a heels-over-head workout. Subsequent features on the boots on television shows like PM Magazine further boosted sales. Says Gravity Guidance President Bryce Martin, 30: "The movie was really the first time anybody had ever heard of the boots, and we were swamped with orders from all over the country...
Gravity Boots were invented in 1965 by Dr. Robert Martin, 73, Bryce Martin's father. An orthopedic surgeon and onetime vaudeville acrobat, the elder Martin developed the boots to relieve the stress on spines and joints caused by standing and sitting. "I always told my colleagues that we'd all have better posture and no back problems if we could walk around on the ceiling," he says. "It was just a matter of figuring...
While the court was granting absolute immunity to Presidents, it refused to do the same for their aides. Fitzgerald had sued two of Nixon's assistants, Bryce Harlow and Alexander Butterfield, over his job problems. Last week the Justices ruled, 8 to 1, that the aides, like Cabinet officers, enjoy only "qualified" immunity. An official, said the court, would be liable to a suit if he could be expected to know he was violating the law. While technically a defeat for the two Nixon aides, the ruling was in a large sense a victory because the court dropped...
...Supreme Court," says James Bryce in The American Commonwealth, "feels the touch of public opinion." That is for sure, and there is a further truth: public opinion, or incensed parts of it, sometimes tries to reach the federal judiciary with a bit more than a touch-with a brisk left hook, say, or a fast right cross. One of those times is at hand: congressional leaders of the New Right are avidly mounting a serious assault on the power, authority and prestige of the federal courts...