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...Truk, Kwajalein, Yap, Ponape, Majuro and Palau. It is a measure of the region's isolation-the nights range up to 1,451 miles nonstop-that no plane travels without a mechanic and spare parts. Says Captain Lee Minors, 43, who prepped for atoll landings on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Hornet in the 1950s: "This is the last place in the world where flying is fun. No fancy strobe lights or air controllers out here. Just dots that shimmer toward you through the void...
...revelers, a crew of 318 and TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury. Reported Woodbury from Puerto Rico, three days and 21 meals later: "Desire lurks at every turn. The important questions of life as one peruses each day's activity sheet are reduced to which luncheon to sample, which deck tourney to enter, whether to pass up the ice-carving demonstration by the Korean chef at poolside for the latest movie...
...introspective Sadat is at the same time a dramatist. He likes pomp. After his 1975 decision to reopen the Suez Canal, Sadat dressed up in a white admiral's uniform and rode down the canal for four hours on the deck of a destroyer. As a young man he wanted to be an actor, and for a brief period, he now relates somewhat uncomfortably, he did perform on the Cairo stage. He answered an ad in the newspaper for a theater job and sent in his photograph, declaring that he did both tragedy and comedy but preferred comedy. Even...
...Wharf in downtown Boston by 8:15 a.m., in time for the 20-minute ferry ride to the island. Aboard the boat some sit quietly smoking cigarettes and talking among themselves, others lean out over the railing, staring out at the docks, ships and shorefront of Boston Harbor. Below deck on the 50-foot launch, some of the students drink coffee and chat with their teachers from the island school...
...courtyard will also include a brick-terraced sun-deck area for outdoor dining and a new landscape of shrubs, flower beds and triangular areas of grass. Last year the Dunster courtyard was almost totally devoid of grass until two weeks preceding commencement...