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Eliot Bridge: bridge just upstream from Harvard that is the site of the most notorious crashes at the Head. The twisting river has little mercy for coxs unfamiliar with its hairpin turns and bridge arches...
...hard to determine who's No. 2." In December, when 17 new releases were vying for attention, one of every three box-office dollars came from moviegoers paying to see Eddie Murphy. And only Eddie. In Beverly Hills Cop there is no romantic interest, no high-voltage partner, no hairpin twist of plot. This is a no-frills star vehicle, with Murphy as a Detroit police detective scouring Rodeo Drive for clues to the murder of a friend back home. The film's only function is to provide Murphy with the opportunity to work a dozen or so variations...
...hours west of Hanoi, the dirt road begins to climb into jungle-covered mountains whose jagged, rocky peaks reach effortlessly into the clouds. The Soviet-built tourist bus, careering around hairpin turns and over steep grades, is shaken down to its ineffectual shock absorbers. At midday, a convoy of Vietnamese troops rumbles by in World War II-type trucks, red flags snapping in the breeze. They are headed for duty in Laos, where about 50,000 Vietnamese troops are supporting the Pathet Lao regime and guarding the Chinese border...
...three marine regiments, which had been in separated positions around the reservoir, finally fought their way through to junction in Hagaru, to the south, after running into bloody ambushes along the roads. The Communists fired on them comfortably at steep grades and hairpin turns, where the marines' vehicles slowed to a crawl. A dreadful indication of the casualties in this sector was that 1,200 wounded were flown out in the first two days...
...debris is only dimly lighted by the sun and distant stars. Even the big Palomar mirror could not have found it without a highly sensitive silicon-chip light detector called a charge-coupled device (CCD), used in place of a photographic plate. When the comet approaches for its hairpin swing around the sun in 1986, solar radiation will boil off volatile material, creating a glowing head and characteristic tail and perhaps another heavenly spectacle...