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...then igniting into a deadly fireball. The test had been set up so that fuel would spill and be given a good chance to burn: the wings were shredded by 400-lb. blades that protruded from the Mojave Desert like giant can openers, and the landing surface was coarse gravel meant to throw off sparks as the plane slid along. Nevertheless, researchers were betting against the big fires that charred most of the plane and burned holes in its fuselage...
...photographers included about twelve too many sittings of average Americans in their native environment: farms, construction sights, gravel pits. The photos that work are the most incongruous: a beach arcade owner plomped smugly against his daily haul: Steven Jobs riding the Couch down the Macintosh assembly line; meat magnate Wally Mander sitting cross-legged in his slaughterhouse, and my favorite, part-time "model" Tina L Hotsky reclining on a New York streetcorner under the watchful eye of the NYPD...
...there were only 13 Fifty-Niners left on the Susitna, and what a winter they had. On Christmas Eve, Steve Pankiewicz's mare Ruby, a Percheron draft horse, fell 20 ft. into a well. All night long the men worked to dig the horse out of the frozen gravel, and by 4 a.m. they were finished. They earned Shorty's grudging admiration. "Those people did something nobody ever did before in this country," he allowed. "They got a horse in a well and got it out alive." Later that winter Bertha Donaldson fell...
...buoyant mood as she opened the door of her private bungalow, came down the steps and walked onto the winding gravel path toward the larger building. Following discreetly two to three yards behind her were five security men. The Prime Minister was on her way to meet British Actor-Director Peter Ustinov, who was waiting with a television crew to conduct an hourlong interview. He had been with her for two days as she campaigned through the state of Orissa in eastern India, and she had enjoyed the actor's droll wit. "The one thing I find utterly boring...
...effort to stem the tide of destruction, workers with the Southern Pacific Railroad maneuvered a large crane last week along a 27-mile causeway built of 50 million cu. yds. of rock, sand and gravel that divides the lake into north and south sections. The aim of the engineers: to begin carving a 300-ft. breach in the causeway, the final step in a three-month, $3.2 million project. If they are successful, water on the south side of the lake will fall about 9 in. during the next two months, lessening the threat of floods to Salt Lake City...