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...leader. You watch your instruments, air speed, altitude, the other aircraft and where you are relative to everything else." An Air Force board of inquiry will take weeks to determine the "probable cause," and officers are not ruling out a mid-air collision, though eyewitness accounts contain no hint...
...sudden climate changes." Among the outfits that seemed to fill the bill: a $256 red silk dress by Andre Van Pier and a pair of $175 gold La Marca pumps. "Physically, I'm in better shape than when I was 17," says Chris, before adding, with a hint of wistfulness, "but being 27 isn't like being...
...measures that he first proposed in September. Among its provisions were ending some tax credits granted to businesses that conserve energy and requiring faster payment of taxes on profits earned by defense contractors. The President definitely will not propose a windfall-profits tax on natural gas producers, but aides hint broadly that he will not fight a move by Congress to tack the tax onto a repeal of the remaining price controls on natural gas. Such a tax might bring in $10 billion to $20 billion a year...
...Stamford, Conn. Smith, in the great line of such sportswriter-debunkers as Ring Lardner, Westbrook Pegler and Damon Runyon, kept his subjects at arm's length. "These are still games little boys play," he said. "The future of civilization is not at stake." He gave a strong hint of what was to become his skewed, lifelong approach to a story on his first sports assignment in 1928: covering a night football practice, he wrote the piece from the viewpoint of a glowworm depressed by the awesome competition of the field lights. Smith was exceptionally prolific, turning out five columns...
...fiction is complex and elusive, sometimes maddeningly obscure. The prose is lush and polychromatic, the plots ingenious. He fashions the most exquisite narrative structures out of the most fragile allusions and symbolic patterns, and ices it all with an arch sense of humor. His late works, such as Ada, hint at layers of meaning that will keep scholars guessing for decades. His works will probably last: Lolita is already available in an annotated critical edition. Still, there is something missing in all of Nabokov's work. His starchy aestheticism comes through as cold, crystalline, and almost inhuman. We wait...