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...clear last Monday morning as the Air Force's crack flying team soared above the Nevada desert, practicing its stunts, which have caused gasps at aerial shows for nearly 30 years. At exactly 9:55 a.m. the four Thunderbird pilots went into a "line-abreast loop," a maneuver in which they roar along, wingtip to wingtip, about 100 ft. off the ground, zoom up to 2,500 ft., loop backward into a dive at 400 m.p.h., then pull out when they get back to 100 ft. This time they did not pull out. One jet hit the ground...
...largely professed indifference to the ubiquitous cold. Yes, it was -23° in Chester, Mass. Yes, the record cold in Worcester (-8°) broke a local television station's transmitter and knocked out broadcasting for a day. And, yes, the freezing temperatures in Boston caused subway rails to crack. But stoicism hardly faltered. Said NWS Meteorologist John Pollock of Concord, N.H. (where it was -10°); "This is just beautiful New England weather...
...1930s, when television was hardly in swaddling clothes, White predicted that it would become "the test of the modern world," capable of "radiance," but likely to produce "an unbearable disturbance of the general peace." Two characteristic sketches deal with The Decline of Sport and the Crack of Doom. Though White does his best, neither is funny. Sport ends in 1985 with a flurry of statistics and a pile-up of 1,482 cars, "a record for eastbound parkways," and 3,000 dead. By that time Americans all take portable radios to football games to hear other sports events, while...
...around him. They fear that the President's most hawkish advisers, notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese, may look upon the Polish crisis as a chance to loosen the Soviet grasp on Eastern Europe. Such a policy, in turn, might force Moscow to crack down even harder. Others claim to hear too many voices coming from the Administration. Says a peeved British diplomat: "No sooner does one U.S. official announce an attitude than within 24 hours another one says the direct opposite...
...cost more than $6 million to build. The film went $11 million over the original budget, shooting was suspended as Coppola wooed other investors-and in August, Paramount showed a very rough cut to a group of disappointed exhibitors. Coppola the lion tamer felt caged; it was time to crack the whip and see who jumped...