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...steel sizing ball which had become our weapon was the inexplicable product of a government surplus catalogue. Austin, a veteran consumer of the obscure, has an obsession for buying anything advertised with exclamation points--"Two-inch diameter! 27 ounces!" After three intense hours of academic grundgework--a feat of concentration made more impressive by the blaring conditions forced on us by a merciless stereo--Dave had conceived of a use for the Steel Chrome Sizing Ball. "Boys," he had said, "it's time to relax...
Despite the fast-forward quality of the presidential chapters, Reagan's America is a prodigious feat of research and popular history. The author has synthesized disparate incidents and uncovered revealing data. From here on, no scholar or journalist will be able to confront the history of the '80s without stopping off at Innocents at Home to see the Ronald Reagans: the fictional and the real...
Legend will someday have it that Author Elmore Leonard became an overnight success with his 23rd novel. Such is not quite the case. True, Glitz (1985) rocketed toward the top of hardback best-seller lists, a feat that earlier Leonard books had not accomplished. Credit for this commercial breakthrough has been given to the huge promotional campaign waged on behalf of Glitz by its publisher. All those ads certainly did not hurt. But Leonard's triumph may have a somewhat less expensive explanation: the devoted readers who enjoyed and passed along the writer's early westerns (Hombre) and those...
...orgy tradition started in the 1940s when anecstatic student, who had just finished his lastexam, went to the station and played all nine ofBeethoven's Symphonies consecutively--a feat thatmust have taken at least 12 hours. The stunt metwith so much enthusiasm that WHRB has continuedtradition of extended music play ever since...
...round-the-world flight without stopping and without refueling is one of the last firsts of atmospheric aviation. Perhaps because such a feat had become almost an anachronism, no one before had tried to accomplish it. The flight was always considered impossible because no plane could carry enough fuel to take it 23,000 miles. But last week, while the attention of the nation was directed toward weightier, more dispiriting matters in Washington, Voyager sailed over the Pacific, over Africa and into the South Atlantic, more than halfway home, offering the world a needed distraction. Voyager's journey called...