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Jerks & Gangsters. Indeed, from Cape Corse to the Strait of Bonifacio, the 114-mile-long island, which lies just 105 miles southeast of Nice, is little more than scenery. The snow-topped mountainous spine of Corsica is traversed only by a Toonerville-style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering...
...enjoyed your story and I agree with much of what you say. Since I was the author of the Canyonlands National Park bill and held the initial field hearings on Cape Cod, Padre Island, Point Reyes and Indiana Dunes Seashore bills and the first field hearing on the Sleeping Bear Lakeshore in Michigan, I know much about the matters you discuss...
Jackie gamely stuck with it until 12:30, then quietly slipped on her Jean Patou coat over her mint-green gown and left by the stage door, where a car waited to take her to the Ritz-Carlton. Next day she headed for the Kennedy compound at Cape Cod, where an Indian-summer day awaited...
...vulgarity is only a minor concern of the critics; what shocks them is that, unlike Picasso, he has never really learned the tools of his trade. He handles the cape like a housewife flapping a bed sheet and uses the bright red muleta as if he were flagging down a train. Worst of all, he is so inept with the sword that about the only way he can be sure of killing the bull is to shoot it. He had to stab one bull 16 times this month before it would die, and twice within the past two weeks...
...powerful gas lasers used in tracking missiles. For the U.S. space program, it makes the instruments that align the Saturn and Centaur guidance systems, the infra-red sensors that monitor carbon dioxide inside the Apollo spacecraft, and the cameras that photograph-and sometimes ride on-the rockets launched from Cape Kennedy. Its balloon-borne telescopes analyzed the atmosphere and climate of Mars long before Mariner spacecraft ever got near that planet...