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Perhaps Duehay remembered another Cambridge mayoral race, not of the 80's but of the 40's. In the election of 1948, City Councillor Ed Crane crossed party lines after 1,321 deadlocked ballots to elect Councillor Michael J. Neville mayor...
Like Duehay, Crane declined the vice chair's seat, and in the city election of 1949, the "Mayor-Maker" was reelected by a landslide. Riding the wave of his popularity, Crane was elected governor...
...Atlantis hurtled toward Mir today, a Canadian astronaut performed some high altitude construction to prepare for the docking. "Chris Hadfield pulled the five-ton docking module out of the payload bay of the shuttle and, with a fifty-foot crane, maneuvered it onto the top of the shuttle craft," says Hannifin. "All this at 17,500 miles per hour and 250 miles above the earth. It's unprecedented in terms of pulling off a giant construction project in space...
Look at all of the people gathered on the street corner. They crane their necks, trying to get a glimpse of the crime scene. Were they bank robbers? Terrorists? The crowd gawks at the FBI agents combing the ground. Hundreds of people assembled on a work day afternoon. Watching...
...window ledge and hanging on while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal!) In Project A, improving on the clock-tower hanging scene from Lloyd's Safety Last, Chan falls from the sky-high tower through two awnings and crashes to earth-on his head. (Tiptoe away, Lloyd's of London...