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...Army, however, Lateiner's headlong progress hit a not-so-grand pause. Columbia Records ignored him, and indeed, Lateiner, who was shy and knew nothing of the ways of self-promotion, never even tried to get his recording contract renewed. For several years he seemed merely to hover on the fringes of the select circle of U.S. pianists; he never quite won the measure of popular acclaim that went to others of his generation, such as Gary Graffman and Leon Fleisher. Last month, when he called his manager's Los Angeles office, a new switchboard operator asked curtly...
...even after Russian-born Igor Sikorsky introduced the U.S.'s first successful commercial version 25 years ago, copters remained so cantankerous as to be largely experimental. The indispensable element of a copter is the rotor, which enables it to take off and land on a dime, hover, fly in any direction, land on a dead engine. Spinning, a rotor not only tends to whirl the body of the machine in the opposite direction but makes the whole craft in effect a gyroscope resisting any movement from its original position. To keep copters from toppling over like drunken ducks, manufacturers...
...fact is that the doctor's role has radically changed. In a famous painting by Sir Luke Fildes-which still hangs in many a doctor's office-a rumpled and exhausted physician keeps home watch over a comatose child while her worried parents hover anxiously in the background. The doctor has obviously been up all night, brooding, worrying, waiting-probably in part because he did not know what else to do. In today's medicine, both the scene and the sentiment are badly out of date. The child would be in an oxygen tent in a hospital...
...Hunger. Beyond that is the question of what Tri Quang will do if, as seems likely, a Buddhist-based government emerges from the elections. For all he says today, the specters of Communism and neutralism still hover over him from the past. The U.S. is inclined to take him at his word, let him prove his much avowed concern for the people of Viet Nam. Twenty years of war have left the Vietnamese with a desperate hunger for national identity, that no government since independence in 1954 has been able to provide. If he chooses to, Tri Quang...
...until it came down close to blast-off. At 30 seconds, the crowd suddenly shut up. The moment came, a cloud of smoke went up, and then a roar, a screaming, enormous roar that no TV microphone could ever reproduce. It left the pad, and seemed to hover above it for a few seconds. The crowd applauded. Then it was off, streaking across the sky into an open patch between the clouds, faster than you could believe, faster than the screaming jets that followed it, faster than the cameras can suggest. In less than two minutes...