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...crash occurred at 4 p.m., just as sunlight on the mountains was fading. That night the survivors huddled together in the wrecked fuselage. When dawn came next morning, they ripped off seat covers and put on rugby uniforms over their light summer-weight clothes for extra warmth. Pieces of tinted glass from plane windows became sunglasses against the snow glare. On a transistor radio hooked up to the plane's only working battery, they heard that a search had begun. When a plane appeared overhead, they flashed pieces of aluminum from the wreckage to signal it. The effort...
Nonskiers cannot comprehend why otherwise rational people rise at dawn in order to buy a $10 ticket for the privilege of shivering in a slow-moving lift line to ascend slowly a hill that they will quickly slide down. Or to careen down a narrow, bumpy trail in a blinding snowstorm, watching for the hidden icy spot that could send them crashing into a tree trunk. The explanation is simple. Skiing is a feast for all the senses. It promises exhilaration, fresh air and muscle-taxing exercise; an hour of downhill skiing can burn up as many as 500 calories...
...assaulted the senses and numbed the minds of the 500,000 spectators gathered on nearby Florida beaches and highways. As the Apollo 17 Saturn rocket began to lift ponderously from Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A, the entire sky was filled with an orange-pink glow, a false dawn against which gulls and pelicans wheeled and fluttered in aimless confusion. The awesome spectacle marked a fitting beginning to the mission of Apollo 17, which at week's end was approaching the moon, carrying Astronauts Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt and Ron Evans on what may well...
Prudence E. Carlson of South House and Evanston, Ill.: Lorraine J. Daston of North House and Bladenburg, Md.; John M. Fuchs of North House and Silver Spring. Md.; Beth Goldman of Eliot House and Blue Field Hills, Mich.; Dawn Ho of Dunster House and Cleveland Heights. Ohio: Sandra J. Kopit of Currier House and Silver Spring. Md.; Patricia E. Lynch of Lowell House and West Babylon. N.Y.; Anne MacKinnon of Adams House and Louisville. Ky.; Debra L. Raskin of Eliot House and Miami. Fla.; Ernestine N. Rathborne of Lowell House and Mill Neck. N.Y.; Marybeth Shinn of North House...
...result has been a tremendous boost in morale and the endearment of Zumwalt to the enlisted men. (Some wives briefly protested the last reform, but were pacified by commands giving married men more time with their families.) It seemed that an era of reason was about to dawn...