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...hour flight by Columbia last year. While weather at Kennedy is expected to improve only slightly by tomorrow, nearly perfect conditions are forecast for the Mojave Desert landing strip. NASA prefers Kennedy because it costs $1 million to ferry shuttles from California to Florida on the roof of a jumbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRANDED IN SPACE | 3/17/1995 | See Source »

...surprisingly, Vowl must simply vanish from this book. His pals, who miss and worry about him, mass at a provincial mansion to try and find out what is afoot. This ragtag cabal scans shards of Vowl's writings, an amalgam of mumbo-jumbo, looking for hints. Will chaos or stark fatality confront all participants of this odd squad of misfits, drawn inward in companionship to look for a missing Vowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WORLD OF HUMOR AND LOSS | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...gavels with him that day. The first -- a link to the past and a token of how long the G.O.P. had waited to regain power -- had belonged to Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, the last Republican Speaker, who relinquished it to the Democrats 40 years ago. The other, a jumbo mallet suggestive of Gingrich's power and willingness to use it, was donated by a fan. On opening day he favored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the House | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...miss the breakfast sandwich, the pastrami on a bun, the huge jumbo with "everything" that could feed all of Lowell House--all at prices reasonable enough to justify the absence of fast-food franchises in the Square. The service was lightning-fast, if a little blunt...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Mourning the Passing of Elsie's | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

...Kiwi International Air Lines, an upstart carrier formed by laid-off airline workers, suspended flights for a time after FAA inspectors raised questions about its pilot-training records. And at New York's Kennedy Airport, the FBI disclosed that it was investigating sabotage in the electrical wiring of several jumbo jets belonging to Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Safety: Under a Cloud | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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