Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign mocked the Federal Government's efforts to stop drug trafficking, including the raids in Bolivia. "I'll never understand why, if they're serious about a drug bust, they decide to announce it to the world a week before they make it," said Comedian and Liberal Activist Dick Gregory. "And then they're surprised when they can't find any of the people they're looking...
...artistic favorites were rats (The Nutcracker Suite), mice (Walt Disney's Cinderella), whales (John Huston's Moby Dick) and the sexual cannibals of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer, which so seized her imagination that, she says, "my parents were afraid I'd try to eat someone on the beach." In fact, her mother had a deeper fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt...
...California desert wind was gusty last week, and the chase plane radioed the pilot 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...
Voyager began life in 1981 as a sketch on a napkin at the weather-beaten Mojave Inn, near the airport. The sketcher was Burt Rutan, 43, an engineer with an established reputation for building quirky-looking but aerodynamically ingenious planes. With his brother Dick and Jeana Yeager (no relation, believes Jeana, to famous Test Pilot Chuck), Rutan had decided to attempt the around-the-world flight...
...Dick Rutan is particularly proud of the team that assembled and maintained the craft. "It was done by individual Americans," he says, "and not by a corporation and not by a government." Although corporate sponsors provided equipment and expertise, much of the project's financing came from private donations. Among the volunteers who worked seven-day-a-week shifts setting up mission control, weather and communications systems and making last minute preparations were retired pilots in their 50s, 60s and even...