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...week later, MIT signed an agreement promising not to purchase property in the area for one year. The current flap revolves primarily around which document is recognized...
...camera at the arm's "elbow" was providing clear pictures, including shots of the nose showing where tiles had been damaged or lost. While reviewing films of the launch, technicians discovered that still other tiles had fallen off the top surface of the shuttle's big body flap during liftoff. None of the missing tiles, however, seemed crucial to a safe re-entry into the atmosphere...
...Japan's most famous young bird seemed unimpressed with her imperial visitor. Hoping to change the fowl's nonchalance, Hirohito studied the crane avidly, then moved in to try his hand at feeding. Still no recognition, but the Emperor was not about to create a flap. For the 80-year-old Hirohito, the bird's mere existence may carry more import than her aloof manners. In Japanese culture, the crane is a symbol of longevity...
These are not cheap shots aimed to cripple Rumania's tourist industry or elicit smug agreement about Communist inefficiency. Corde has seen worse in Chicago. He has, in fact, written about it with appalling accuracy for Harper's magazine and caused a flap. The dean has also been criticized for his role in the arrest of two blacks accused of murder. Corde has been called a racist, a traitor to his home town and a fool. His boss is miffed at the publicity caused by his magazine piece, and his boyhood friend Dewey Spangler, now a famous columnist...
...until they captured the control tower and gave the Air India plane permission to touch down. The landing was nearly a disaster; the pilot just missed a Seychelles army truck parked on the runway and was forced to hop over another, which the plane did brush with a wing flap. "I'm afraid you have arrived at a most unfortunate moment," one of the mercenaries told the 79 startled passengers and crew on board as mortar and machine-gun fire blazed around them. "You'll just have to wait." Three hours later, the surviving soldiers of fortune, carrying...