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...made up of four Sikorsky SH-34J helicopters attached to a helium-filled blimp, the Heli-Stat was the brainchild of Frank Piasecki, 66, a pioneer in helicopter development. Patented in 1961, the Heli-Stat could not find a sponsor until 1979, when Piasecki received backing from the U.S. Forest Service to build a vehicle for lifting lumber from remote forests. But development costs ballooned from an original estimate of $6.7 million to over $31 million, and the Heli-Stat managed to fly successfully for the first time only last April. The latest Lakehurst disaster may take...
...paper and stacks of books, Bradley believes that most issues are too complicated to allow for easy answers. Some colleagues say that he is a victim of what they call "the Jimmy Carter syndrome." Says one: "He can get all bound up in the trees and miss the forest." But others, like Rhode Island Republican John Chafee, argue that "Bradley can see the big picture," and cite his prescience in latching on to tax reform...
...horizon Sondheim's own Into the Woods, devised with his Sunday in the Park partner, James Lapine. Its premise is that the stories of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy-tale figures all take place on the same day in the same forest, practically within bumping distance. The show is still evolving through workshop stagings, but according to one Sondheim friend, "It is about the consequences implicit in those stories--what happens during the 40 years after Cinderella marries the prince...
...itself in remarkable new ways. Sometimes the self- references are just lazy or parochial. On situation comedies, characters make jokes about other situation comedies. In Stephen King's fiction, a character in a quandary "thought of a cartoon character with an anvil suspended over its head," and a forest "seemed alive with hokey B-movie jungle drums." Then there are the stranger entertainments about entertainment, from the small army of Elvis impersonators to the TV game show Puttin' On the Hits, on which ordinary folks lip-sync pop songs. With Entertainment...
While President Reagan was criticizing the House bill as protectionist, he had to make a difficult decision involving a recommendation from the International Trade Commission. Responding to a complaint from the Northwest Independent Forest Manufacturers, the ITC had decided that the U.S. should impose tariffs on imports of Canadian red cedar shakes and shingles because they were damaging American producers of those products. Under U.S. trade law, the White House had until last Saturday to act on the ITC recommendation, and the President chose to slap a 35% tariff on the Canadian shakes and shingles. The levy will be phased...