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...there is more to a quad than another flipflop. When a flyer is traveling through the air at 80 m.p.h., reaction time is measured in milli seconds. "If it's a triple somersault, Mi guel can feel if he's going too fast," explains Juan, 32. "He can relax and slow down. If he's going too slowly, he can tuck up tighter and complete the third somer sault faster." The quadruple, by contrast, allows no such mid-course adjustment; once the flyer has released the bar and tucked himself up for the first of four turns...
...cluster bombs for ground attack, and 30-mm guns and U.S.-built AIM-9L Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles, the Sea Harrier has an advanced avionics and radar system that allows it to fly day or night in any weather, unlike Argentina's Mirages and Skyhawks. Says a Harrier flyer: "It's a pilot's dream...
...second picture appeared three years later, on a campaign flyer mailed to residents throughout Los Angeles' fourth county district only days before the April 1980 election Burke's opponent for the position of L.A. county supervisor had spent $100,000 having the xeroxed photograph distributed and labeled the picture with the blunt question. "Would you vote for this person." Unable to respond to the blatantly racist ploy, Burke lost the race and withdrew from elective politics at together...
Every publishing venture is a gamble, but this one seems a bigger flyer than most reissued works by 19th century American authors, offered at a late 20th century price. And the Library of America, the new publisher of these four new-old books, has already committed itself to a long roll of future bets. Next fall it will issue beginning collections of Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, and two volumes of Jack London; in a year, it promises another pair of books devoted to Melville and Hawthorne, plus two volumes of the writings of Historian Francis Parkman. The library...
...flyer that will be distributed in the Square later this month, asks students to reject "free love" and develop "an understanding of the spiritual dimensions of relationships...