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Seconds after takeoff on his first try with a hang glider, a sudden gust of wind caused Craig Vetter to crash. He spent two months in a wheelchair, learning to hate what many disabled persons call the "chrome-plated torture rack." Now, one year later, Industrial Designer Vetter, 39, has put his own well-engineered, light, agile and elegant wheelchair design on the market. As yet custom made, Vetter's chair also comes in a sports model for wheelchair tennis, basketball or marathons...
...whale. Their first intimation of the loss was the boatsteerers looking in direction of the ship, cried out to the Captain "Look! Look! What ails the ship, she is upsetting." It had the appearance at first sight of a ship caught in a sudden and hard squall or gust of wind with the sails flying in all directions and the vessel nearly turned upon one side. They lost no time in disengaging themselves...
Invasion fears were hardly allayed by the truculence of Czechoslovak President Gustáv Husák's 79-page keynote speech. With Brezhnev looking on in approval, Husák declared that "anti-socialist forces -supported and instigated by the enemies of socialism from abroad-are attempting to bring about a counterrevolutionary reversal in this fraternal socialist country [Poland]." Invoking the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine that was used to justify the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, Husák warned ominously that "the protection of the socialist system is . . . the joint concern of the states of the socialist community...
...come to their senses after all. TASS then announced that the three-week-old Warsaw Pact military exercises, with their World's Fair name of Soyuz '81, were coming to a close. Brezhnev's speech was all the more welcome following the growls of Czechoslovak President Gustáv Husák the day before. The game was good-cop-bad-cop, but it worked. So much, then, for the impressive show of force. To be sure, the Soviets might be lying about the troop withdrawal, might be pulling another Czechoslovakia '68 by cutting out temporarily...
...gust of primitive certitude blowing in from the right. The grudgingly delighted little rediscoveries of marriage and other products of anamnesis seem part of a new American talent for throwing open the door to the worthy and obvious, to a solid modest vista of common sense or even virtue, and treating it as a revelation that the cosmos has, until now, kept hidden. It is like discovering the wheel all over again...