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...took the first crack at The Right Stuff script was star Screenwriter-Pop Novelist William Goldman. In his recent book Adventures in the Screen Trade, he notes that structurally Wolfe's book is really two books. One is about the fighter jocks turned test pilots, led by the legendary Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier. A natural pilot who graduated without benefit of a college degree from a World War II ace into test flights, Yeager, with his peers, established the exacting, unspoken standards (and style) of test flight in the late...
...worse than walking under ladders or breaking a mirror, opening an umbrella indoors or stepping on a crack. When a Black Knight crosses your path, you know you're in for an unlucky football game...
...weight lifter from Bethesda, Md. "It gets you breathing hard. You sweat. Your mind is consumed by the motion of what you are trying to do and by the pain factor. But when you stop, it's like coming down from a high." Like some proud corps of crack troops, the new Spartans are dedicated to an ideal of fitness that far surpasses conventional images of weekend joggers. "I enjoy being strong," says Houston Librarian Amy Mollberg, 39, who lifts free weights. "I have a sense of security knowing that I have the stamina and strength to do almost...
DIED. Leonard Burt, 91, British detective who worked with the crack intelligence agency M15 during World War II and who later (1946-58) commanded Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, which is responsible for security of the royal family; in London. As England's premier sleuth in the 1940s, Burt collared Traitors William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") and John Amery and Atomic Spies Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs. Quiet and affable, Burt had an uncanny knack for extracting incriminating information from suspects. In his memoirs, he wrote of the typical quarry: "In many cases, he is only...
...Springs, but no Olympic bids materialized for Greg Olson. Greg Britz or Neil Sheehy. The last two are now taking shots at the pros. Britz is chasing pucks at training camp for the Toronto Maple Leafs this week. while defenseman Sheehy, who has already signed a contract, hopes to crack the lineup of the Calgary Flames, a club conveniently short of blueliners. The NHL took an active interest in two other Crimson pucksters in the June amatcut draft Philadelphia took the rights to incoming freshman Allen Bourbeau and Calgary drafted last year's star goalie. Grant Blair...