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...m.p.h. is not like any other kind of flying that has been available for six decades. Says Mike Circuit, 37, an ultralight instructor in Salt Lake City: "It's wind in the face, flying by the feel of it, like the old barnstorming days." Agrees fellow Utahan Ken Hurd, 42: "I've never had such excitement. In a small plane, you're enclosed. Here, you're like a bird. Everything constantly changes below you. I can't believe how things look. It's surreal...
...Artist Alexander Clayton. The unveiling was done with a minimum of fanfare, and although an announcement was made, it was released well after the deadlines for evening news broadcasts and most morning dailies. Workmen also put up an oil of former First Lady Patricia Nixon painted by Henriette Wyeth Hurd, wife of Artist Peter Hurd. Mrs. Nixon's portrait had been in storage since it was finished in 1978 because, said a curator, "she requested that it not be hung until her husband...
...blonde, green-eyed Karen Honold, 20, an assistant cook who looks like a movie starlet and makes $906 a month (not counting overtime), is baking a chocolate cake. On the bridge, Captain DeTemple is stalking about in conventional irritation at having to share his command with Harbor Pilot Jim Hurd, the curly-headed Alaskan in charge of maneuvering Anchorage through the narrows. With a tug's help we get under way. Thirty minutes out Hurd calls for a hard left turn, followed by mildly tricky navigation past a needle-shaped island named Middle Rock. The channel is close...
...brooding poet Robert Lowell is given a crayoned zigzag crown of laurels by Sidney Nolan (June 2, 1967), while Boris Artzybasheff painted a blue-faced underwater Jacques Cousteau (March 28, 1960). Among the other artists in the show: Pietro Annigoni, Bernard Buffet, René Bouché and Peter Hurd...
...witness a "liar," Nichol cited him for contempt; later he threw Defense Lawyers Mark Lane and William Kunstler in jail overnight for arguing with him. The prosecution annoyed the judge no less. Nichol accused the FBI of "arrogance" and "misconduct" and Chief U.S. Prosecutor R. (for Richard) D. Hurd of deceiving the court...