Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow's hawk flies to Warsaw with a warning
...space," exulted veteran Astronaut Deke Slayton, boss of orbital flight-test crews, referring to the sturdy Douglas aircraft that opened new routes for commercial aviation in the mid-1930s. Columbia's maiden space voyage brought to mind the first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, Lindbergh's lone-eagle crossing of the Atlantic, even the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, which would turn a land of remote frontiers into a nation. Princeton's prophet of space colonization, Physicist Gerard O'Neill, saw the flight as a first step toward establishing...
...weapons and starting up production facilities. Executives at General Electric's aircraft engine division in Lynn, Mass., do not expect to receive big payoffs from the Reagan spending before 1984 or 1985. The Army, for example, wants more of GE's T-700 engines for its Black Hawk helicopters, but it will be at least a year before any additional machines can be produced. Said one company executive: "You know it's not like making more toasters or light bulbs...
Swop by Ken Jenkins. Folk tales have retained their appeal through the centuries partly because they are parables of good and evil. The man of good in Swop is H.E. Rowe (Ken Jenkins), an 81-year-old who communes with nature, wears hawk masks and goes "buck-dancin' " with his favorite deer. The man of evil is Lanny (Robert Schenkkan), a mean-spirited drunk and a cancerous coward of a man who relishes dashing a kitten to death against a wall. A surprisingly animated wooden Indian presides over the pair's rendezvous with destiny...
DIED. Michael Maltese, 72, pre-eminent cartoon animator and writer who, starting in 1937, helped create such characters as Henery Hawk, Sylvester Cat and Road Runner, and invented countless comic calamities for them and others, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and the Flintstones; of cancer; in Los Angeles...