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Fuel tanks became incendiary bombs, ejector seats blasted from burning planes, a superheated machine gun opened fire spontaneously, missiles detonated. "It was pure hell," said Chief Warrant Officer Bob Henderson, "just ungodly." Rob Burton, 21, one of the fire fighters, recalled: "The first explosion knocked down two whole hose teams." Added fellow Fireman Bob Barton: "There were some of us buried under wreckage. We went up with our hose but lost pressure." Another seaman remembered the shock of seeing casualties brought below deck from the holocaust: "My chief was on the first load from the elevator. He was missing...
...early indication he should have been waved off." There are signs that the plane's crew tried to escape during their fatal career down the flight deck. Said a Nimitz crewman: "They found one of the fliers burned in his seat with his hand still clutching the ejector handle. He had pulled it, but by then the plane was crashing...
...four inches deep, about to slant-drop over an immense 150-foot-long granite rock. And halfway down the rock were my five friends, hand-in-hand, sit-sliding...sploosh. They rode the tidal wave they made in the pearl-pool at the bottom, clambered out as if an ejector seat were pushing them, and toiled back up the path to where I was. Greetings, food, wine, smoke, sun, pine needles, my turn...
Bowman's complex act parallels that of the australopithicus: his use of the pod ejector to re-enter the craft was improvisational, the mechanism undoubtedly designed for a different purpose--this referring to the use of bone as weapon-tool. Finally in committing murder, Bowman has essentially lost his dehumanization and become an archetypal new being: one worthy of the transcendental experience that follows. For the last part of the film, we must assume Bowman an individual by virtue of his improvised triumph over the complex computer...
...innovation. Its president, William Hewitt, 48, a San Francisco-born marketing expert, is only the fifth man to head the company since John Deere founded it. The company's history is largely one of careful, unspectacular growth. Yet Deere produced the first cotton harvester, the first hay bale ejector and the first power steering for tractors. Under Hewitt, president for eight years, the emphasis has switched even more strongly to innovation, and Deere has abandoned its conservative image...