Word: glides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Glide Foundation has proposed resolutions to Southern California Edison, asking it to disclose its affirmative action plans and the employment information it has filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the last three years...
Some sailplane pilots would sooner see hang-gliding go the way of pigsticking and jousting. Alvin Owens, vice president of San Diego's Decision Science, Inc., bristles at the mere mention of it. "It's a step backward," says Owens. "I think it's extremely unfortunate for people to think about soaring and hang-gliding in the same context. It's like comparing the Soap Box Derby to the Indianapolis 500." The feud is particularly sharp at Torrey Pines, where all hands compete for precious air space in one of the country's best-known...
...world is going on elsewhere. Even though there were no adults in the picture, you knew they were out there, and that they were different from the kids on the strip. Charlie, Michael, Tony and Johnny Boy are not the only ones on the mean street: the older mafioso glide elegantly and watch TV; the bums have kindly, lost smiles; crowds throng around the neon crosses at the festivals. Bizarre or not, they've found quiet ways to cope...
...Walleye, a sophisticated TV-guided, 1,000-lb. glide missile with a range of about 25 miles for use by A-4 Skyhawks against missile and artillery installations. It was employed in Viet Nam against artillery and other installations in mountainside caves...
Everything about this movie seems carefully calculated for effect. Even the director. The ubiquitous advertisements for Electro Glide in Blue feature the 27-year-old James William Guercio in aviator shades and high-lace boots, looking like Bogdanovich from the neck up and DeMille from the knees down. It would not matter, of course, what the ads or the director looked like if the movie deserved either of the adjectives often associated with first features -"interesting" or "promising." In its slick pomposity, though, the publicity campaign has neatly captured the essence of the film...