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...Atlantic in less than three hours. But in 1971, after $1.2 billion had been spent, the U.S. gave in to swelling environmental and economic criticism and killed the project. The only full-scale prototype of the 288-ft.-long SST was sold to an aircraft museum in Kissimmee, Fla...
...rays. Built by science and engineering students from 32 American and Canadian colleges and universities, the innovative cars, capable of reaching speeds of up to 113 k.p.h. (70 m.p.h.), are following an 11-day, 2,639-km (1,640-mile) course that began in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and will pass through eight states. The high-tech Soap Box Derby is scheduled to finish this week at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich., outside Detroit. (In case of extended rain, the race may be delayed.) According to the < contest's sponsors -- GM, the Department of Energy...
...widely, from blacks who count neither as men nor animals, to Choctaws who are just slightly higher on the scale of outcasts, to Watson's pretty daughter, who at 13 is virtually sold into marriage and three years later still plays skip rope in the streets of Fort Myers, Fla...
...during the late 1400s, migrated to England and Ireland in the 19th century and arrived in the U.S. in the 1860s. The game's popularity has waxed and waned over the years, but it is once again finding a serious audience. The U.S. Croquet Association, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., boasts that sales of high-quality mallets and sets have doubled in the past three years, while the number of croquet clubs has grown from five in 1977 to over 300 this year. More people are buying backyard sets, and public courts are springing up in Tulsa, Phoenix and Rockford...
...concert by 2 Live Crew is scheduled for July 22 at The Channel, a night club in South Boston. The group's album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be," has been deemed obscene by lawmakers in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., San Antonio, Texas, Greenville, S.C., and other cities...