Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he was coming in a little high on final approach to Mojave Airport, 75 miles north of Los Angeles. But Dick Rutan, 48, was determined not to be waved off. "You betcha I'm going to land the first time," he said, and brought his graceful, eye-catching craft in for a perfect landing. Rutan, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, could be excused for being impatient. He and his copilot, Jeana Yeager, 34, had just spent 111 hours aboard the experimental aircraft Voyager without stopping or refueling, flying 11,600 miles and unofficially breaking a 1931 record...
...predawn darkness, Israeli naval officers spotted the rubber dinghy heading south toward the northern Israeli resort town of Nahariya. Ducking fire, the craft made for the Lebanese shore near the border, where the crew leaped onto the limestone rocks, scrambled to the cliffs above and deployed for battle. As illumination flares from Israeli helicopters lit up the area, the would-be invaders attacked Israeli troops with Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. When the shooting ended three hours later, two Israeli soldiers were dead and nine wounded. The bodies of four terrorists, one of them clad...
...ocean liner United States broke the transatlantic speed record previously held by Britain's Queen Mary. Time: 3 days 10 hr. 40 min. Last week a 72-ft. racing craft owned and captained by British Airline and Record Magnate Richard Branson clipped 2 hr. 9 min. off the record, earning the "blue riband" traditionally awarded for top speed, and, presumably, the Hales Trophy glorifying it. But the ocean-liner fraternity cried foul. The curator of the U.S. Merchant Marine Museum, where the trophy is housed, refused to yield it to "a toy boat," as he called Branson's $2.3 / million...
...Angeles, "couples are putting everything on the lists. They're not shy at all." Sometimes they even re-register. Lee Rae Ulrich of San Diego married for a second time recently and signed up again because "everything I had was worn out." By the time Kathleen Sconyers Craft and Paul Jernigan Boehmig, both 32, got married on May 31 in an upscale Atlanta suburb, they had already had a linen shower, a household-item shower, a bar shower and a kitchen shower...
...room, artists work on matte paintings that provide the fake backgrounds for many scenes (the outer-space vistas in Star Wars, for example, or the cavernous warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark). In the model shop, workers craft detailed miniatures of such objects as the spaceship from Cocoon and the De Lorean car that flew through time in Back to the Future. The creature shop is the birthplace for most of the monsters and other grotesques that populate Lucas' fantasyland, from the Rancor Pit monster in Return of the Jedi to the yet-to-beunveiled Howard...