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...flight suits and duck-billed hats with gold braid on them. They threw themselves into training. When it came time for their shuttle missions, they imitated precisely the cadences and vocabularies they had heard so many times on television beaming in from their weightless heroes. "That's affirmative," one camper would say, all business, laconic: "You are a go for nominal de-orbit burn." They caught just right the astronaut's modulations of stoical understatement and occasional jubilant gee whiz. "We're bringin' this bird home!" the commander of one mission cried when he was go for re-entry...
Searches of John's two-story brick-and-wood home in Norfolk, as well as his houseboat, single-engine plane, camper, two cars and the offices of his three private-detective agencies, turned up a collection of gadgets and paraphernalia worthy of both Inspector Clouseau and James Bond. It included a clerical collar, fake IDs and business cards, a .357 magnum pistol, a walking cane that contains a gun, another that conceals a dagger and yet a third that holds hidden vials. When authorities opened his safe-deposit box, No. 257 at a Norfolk branch of the Bank of Virginia...
...style, an imaginative effort to contain its unwieldy width, its absence of definition by such amenities as regular curbs, trees or design coherence. Another, apparently in a very early grade, drew a psychic space showing the hero of the day surrounded by pictures labeled Minnesota, Pigout, The Dude, Breakdance, Camper--and a list of the National Football League teams...
...neither Soviet domination not economic hardship has erased the unique and often inspiring Polish identity. While camping in southeast Poland, one evening I huddled inside a warm log cabin with a group of other campers while rain poured. We sipped vodka prepared the traditional way: a mound of sugar on a small piece of bread melted over the liquor turning it light brown. A man played Polish folk songs on the guitar. Forgetful for the moment of the vodka's expense, the small group exchanged pleasantries that revealed an enduring commitment to national autonomy. One joke suggested just how long...
...dominate from her Lane 4 position, and was second at the turn. In Lane 3 was the third-fastest qualifier, Hogshead's teammate Carrie Steinseifer, 16, a high school junior from Saratoga, Calif., who was also her Olympic Village bunkmate (Nancy upper, Carrie lower). Steinseifer, a happy camper whose blond hair had just been whacked off in Olympic punk style by Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, had been only vaguely concerned with the 1980 boycott because "I wasn't really into swimming then." Last year she won a gold at the Pan American Games. Now here she was, wearing...