Word: colts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unique design makes the X-29A as skittish as a colt. "It's roughly like throwing an arrow backward," says Robert Roemer, head of the X-29A project for Grumman. "No human could handle the multitude of adjustments necessary to keep this bird in stable flight." So three computers do the work for the pilot, making 40 adjustments a second to the wings and canards to keep the plane from ripping apart. In effect, the pilot guides he plane by feeding directions into the computer. If all the computers were to fail, the X-29A would self destruct...
...colt is the result of the first successful embryo transfer between two different equine species. A year ago, Veterinarian William R. Foster, who is assistant director of the Louisville Zoo, and Veterinarian Scott D. Bennett of Simpsonville, Ky., synchronized Kelly's reproductive cycle with that of a pregnant Grant's zebra residing at the zoo. Flushing out a ten-day-old embryo from the zebra's uterus with a sterile solution, the two vets implanted it in the womb of the quarter horse. Safely lodged, the embryo gestated for 366 days, slightly longer than the average term...
...city fought back. The next day a circuit court judge issued a restraining order which temporarily prevented the Colts from completing their move or playing anywhere else but in Baltimore--the first step in the effort to recapture the team under the legal doctrine of eminent domain. But locking the barn door did little good, the colt was gone and legal precedent favored Irsay. In the past year a California federal court has twice ruled in favor of Al Davis, owner of the Raiders, who challenged the NFL constitution and the city of Oakland when he moved his team from...
...been so heavily favored to win racing's Triple Crown. The wonder horse called Secretariat had won impressive victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Still, going into the $150,200 Belmont Stakes, the last and longest (1½ miles) of the three classics, the strapping chestnut colt was bucking the very formidable odds of history...
...Reagan's chief of staff in Sacramento. The riders are Reagan, Clark and Clark's father William, formerly a rancher and the police chief of Oxnard, Calif. In the corner, Clark's gray stetson dangles from a hat rack. Near by, encased in glass, rest the Colt .44 revolver and marshal's badge that belonged to his grandfather Robert Emmet Clark, once the sheriff of Ventura County and a U.S. marshal...