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> The Perry-Link Deep Diver, a 22-ft., 8¼-ton submersible that can operate at a depth of 1,350 ft. for as long as twelve hours, moving up, down, forward, backward and sideways. It has a forward pilot's compartment and a separately pressured divers' compartment...
Clearing the Cabin. Coddling of passengers goes just so far, though, and the airlines have yet to devise baggage rules that keep everybody happy. Because too many people have been sneaking aboard with everything from caged pets to rubber trees and stuffed elk heads, the FAA last month flatly prohibited...
As the South Vietnamese Air Force DC-3 approached the mountain resort town of Dalat, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky left the passenger compartment, took over the controls and skillfully guided the plane down onto the tiny airstrip. Soon after landing, he summoned reporters to the lovely presidential palace once used...
Cussing & Calamity Janes. Braniff International tried to have it both ways, one day running a full-page "weight watcher's guide to Dallas" listing its low, medium-and high-calorie flights, the next day taking a two-page newspa per ad to boast about its gourmet delicacies plus special...
The sun, setting exclusively for the young Nabokov, "lent an ember to my bicycle bell." Ben, Dan, Sam and Ned, the "wan-faced, big-limbed, silent nitwits" encountered in the English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my...