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...silly talk," Merwin debunks another myth--that poets can analyze their inspiration. "People get very smart and canny about it, but finally it escapes you. Isn't that great that you can never sort of get the jump on it...It's always smarter than you are." Another fleet of ambulances crosses Mt. Auburn Street...
...argued against the goal of feeding starving people, but the airdrops raise tricky problems. The quantity of supplies carried by the aircraft is limited; they will supplement, not replace, the aid brought in by truck. The deliveries are to be made by a fleet of 18 C-130 Hercules cargo planes based at the Rhein-Main air base outside Frankfurt, each capable of hauling 12 tons of supplies at a time; the land convoys usually carry from 60 to 100 tons. Dropped from altitudes of 10,000 ft., to stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says...
These days he avoids trips to the capital or other major cities, although the Gbadolite village airstrip can accommodate the supersonic Concorde that Mobutu charters from Air France as well as a number of Boeing jets in the presidential fleet. Exquisite flower gardens and vast plantations of pineapple imbue Gbadolite with an air of bucolic tranquillity. But it is a Potemkin village: most of the electricity is switched off when the dictator and his circle are absent, leaving thousands of townspeople to fend for themselves in the tropical darkness...
...full by the time I peeked inside. I was the fastest girl in all of Mrs. McKay's fourth grade class, having been clocked with the best 50-yard dash time (except for Celia Hanley, but she was my best friend so that was okay). Because I was so fleet of foot, I was the first one finished handing out all those valentines I'd made...
British Transport Secretary John MacGregor called the prevalence of substandard vessels an "international disgrace" -- a statement corroborated, oddly enough, by the oil industry. A report by Shell Petroleum indicated that 20% of the world's oil fleet was suitable only for "the scrapyard." At the moment, the world's seaways are becoming scrap-yards. Even as politicians debated what to do, the Maersk Navigator, a Danish supertanker that collided with a ship near Sumatra two weeks ago, was still burning -- and still spewing...