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...mission was canceled when three of the eight helicopters heading toward Desert One broke down while flying through a blinding sandstorm. An electrical power supply on one craft overheated and failed, knocking out the gyrocompass, the horizon indicator and the cockpit lights. The crew flew back to the Nimitz, making a dangerous landing, with fuel tanks nearly empty...
...idea of happiness, Hitchcock once said, was "a clear horizon, no clouds, no shadows. Nothing." Given a choice, it seems possible that he would have cho sen to live in a blank world rather than a chance universe, where the evil and the unexpected? perhaps they were the same thing to him ? could suddenly crowd in upon one, where everyone knew he was guilty of something, if not necessarily what he was being punished for. It is a measure of his achievement that he lit erally made light of these dark feelings, miraculously transforming them into deft and graceful popular...
...each. The next speaker, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, went far beyond those issues to deliver a sweeping global critique. He charged the Administration with lacking a world view that would produce a consistent policy and offered one of his own in a dour tour d'horizon of impressive scope...
...starting time, the sun had set and the sky painted a navy blue backdrop, with traces of pink scraping the horizon...
...economy that stubbornly refuses to cool off, consumers who will not stop spending, prices that keep on rising and, looming on the horizon, the biggest new inflationary jolt of defense spending since the Viet...