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...range. The FBI says it has independently verified the Navy's account and that the plane wreckage recovered so far shows no signs of a missile blast. Salinger has also made much of a photograph, published in France by the magazine Paris Match, which was taken on the outdoor deck of a Long Island restaurant on the evening of the crash, which shows a bright blip in the evening sky. A missile? But reporters and federal investigators determined that the picture was taken facing north, away from the sea where the plane eventually fell. Above all, the exasperated federal agents...
Wall Street isn't getting off at that station. "CSX and CRR, with the complicity of the Pennsylvania legislature, have effectively stacked the deck against an economically superior Norfolk Southern offer for Conrail," contends Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette analyst James M. Higgins. The contestants are headed for court...
...acre site dominated by a massive 750-ft.-long re-creation of the ship--a hulking shell built almost to scale. It rests in a 17 million-gal. tank, and will be lowered into the water by degrees. Tonight's shoot takes place on the poop deck, which can be tilted as much as 90[degrees] by hydraulic lifts. This is one of the film's more harrowing sequences, at least from a production point of view: a couple of hundred extras playing steerage passengers must endure take after take in which they career down the deck...
When the poop-deck angle gets to 30[degrees] or more, the actors don harnesses so they can't fall off. "I wish I could do it in every scene--tether the extras so they can't go to the bathroom," Cameron says. He's only half joking: during the making of True Lies, the director decreed that anyone who asked for a potty break was fired. Cameron says he doesn't care if his crew gets mad. "I'm pretty demanding," he admits. "When we're spending $25,000 or $35,000 or $45,000 an hour...
...shrinking game has petered out when it hit our palms. Trying to build a handtop computer like the Apple Newton or Sony's Magic Link was a sure route to digital Edseldom. It was just too hard to fit anything useful into a space the size of a deck of cards...