Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Private Pilot Jim Campbell, flying at 1,500 ft. near Los Angeles, could not believe his eyes. Looking up, he saw a flash of light 1 1/2 miles off to the left of his aircraft. The fireball turned into a plume of black smoke, and Campbell watched in horror as a huge DC-9 airliner dropped its nose and rolled to its left. Twisting upside down, the wounded aircraft picked up speed as it plunged toward earth. "Oh!" shouted Campbell to himself. "Pull her up. Pull her up. Oh, pull...
Parked on the shoulder of Interstate 45 between Houston and the Galveston beaches, the white GMC Blazer appears to be a disabled car, until beach-bound speeders approach. Then they're captured -- in a flash. A combination cameraradar-computer unit snaps the car's license number and the driver's frequently startled face, as well as the date, time, speed and location. Since May, some 1,200 drivers have been nailed by the high-tech Doppler radar system.The film is developed, the license plate number matched to the car owner, and then the offenders are notified by mail. Only clearly...
...more American than that? Show biz, not solemnity, is an American hallmark; taste is not guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. President Reagan's aides were concerned that their man would be demeaned by the Busby Berkeley choreography. Others joked about his pressing the game-show-size button to flash a laser beam that lighted the Lady. A malfunction, and there goes Star Wars. But the old actor, like the old gal to whom he paid tribute, seemed to rise above the script, as they say in Hollywood, and share the dignity that she never lost. His words were simple...
...Martin Smyth, has warned his marshals to be "extra vigilant." Last week Tom King, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made a public plea for restraint. For its part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, a predominantly Protestant police force, is planning to reroute the ceremonies from possible flash points. But merely changing the line of march could provoke more protests from hard-line Protestants. At any time this summer, the men of Orange could see red. "I espouse nonviolent protest," says Smyth, "but there is a growing feeling that only violence wins...
According to Kuban, whose conclusions were presented last month at a New Mexico symposium on dinosaur tracks and traces and printed in the current issue of the journal Creation/Evolution, the Paluxy tracks have been known to local folk since being uncovered by a 1908 flash flood. The world learned of them in the 1930s, when residents set up roadside stands to sell both real and fake samples of the footprints. When paleontologists went to investigate the source, they saw dinosaur tracks but found the man tracks too indistinct to identify...