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Approaching the island after dawn, the intrepid hams quickly discovered that the Coast Guard's warning had been apt. The wire ladder was there, all right, but the backwash was violent. Transporting gear, including 50 boxes of electronic equipment, three rotatable-beam antennas, two gasoline-powered generators weighing about 150 Ibs. each, plus assorted 20-ft.-long steel pipes, bamboo poles, 250-lb. gasoline drums, kegs of drinking water and a week's food supply, looked impossible. Just getting to the swaying ladder seemed daunting enough...
...mile limit. Later, Thatcher increased the pressure by ordering a second, smaller flotilla to leave for the Falklands. Along with support vessels, the new force included the Atlantic Conveyor, an 18,000-ton container ship modified to carry 18 Harrier jump jets, and the newly recommissioned H.M.S. Intrepid, an amphibious assault vessel capable of carrying as many as 700 troops, eight landing craft and five helicopters. In addition, the government requisitioned the cruise liner Uganda, which last week disembarked 1,295 vacationing passengers in Naples before steaming to Gibraltar, where it will be converted into a 1,000-bed hospital...
...next morning, at 7 sharp, the group divides by energy level, either for a Vigorous Morning Walk or a slightly less robust Awake and Aware Walk. At 8 a.m. the marginally intrepid set out for a hike in the desert, marching spryly behind Phyllis Hochman, a former New York City schoolteacher who has, she says, achieved her private fantasy and become "the only middle-aged Jewish female trail leader in the West...
...style wasn't outrageous," she says. Barnes has a flexible definition of outrageous: in her first collections, she used curved shoulder pads while removing the conventional shoulder seam so that a jacket seemed to melt along the arm. For her line this fall, the intrepid Barnes is featuring overcoats of exotic tweeds. She is also reworking men's and women's jackets with knitted collars of complementary colors but with different, tighter weaves incorporating spandex. If this sounds a touch outré, her clients-including Saks and Neiman-Marcus-are decidedly down-to-earth...
Fischer's stores provide all those components, along with such trendy items as knickers and-for the summer-miniskirts. (A caution to the intrepid: there is as yet no hard and fast policy about this, but it is strongly recommended that-except at a punk surprise party-minis never be worn with support stockings.) Says Marilyn Lane of Washington's New Conceptions maternity boutique, "Whatever fashion is In for the everyday woman is what the pregnant woman wants to wear...