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When a cluster of five Navy Avenger planes was found off the coast of Fort Lauderdale last month, salvage experts were sure they had at last found Flight 19. Known as the Lost Squadron, its disappearance in 1945 had helped launch the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. Preliminary evidence seemed to support the experts' conclusion: the identifying numbers of two of the planes were the same, as was the number of downed aircraft...
...following year, convinced that Kennedy would launch yet another invasion of Cuba, Khrushchev opted to deploy on Cuban soil medium- and intermediate- range Soviet missiles capable of reaching American targets. Although approving the way the White House dealt with the confrontation, Beschloss blames Kennedy for failing to make U.S. goals clear. If he had better articulated his country's interests, Beschloss insists, "it is doubtful that Khrushchev would have felt compelled to take his giant risk on Cuba." Kennedy had second thoughts as well. "Last month I should have said . . . that we don't care" about the missile deployment...
...homely variety. The engineers can rebuild computers floating upside down in space, but they forget to talk to one another on the ground. So the managers of the Hubble Space Telescope didn't know there may have been something wrong with the mirror's shape, and the launch officials didn't know O rings could stiffen in the cold. It is no knock on the spacemanship of the astronauts to admit that space is a difficult and dangerous place -- just on the salesmanship of the agency that put them there. NASA's strategy resembles George Bush's in the Persian...
...consumers launch summer fix-up projects, many are heading for megastores run by Atlanta-based Home Depot, the do-it-yourself industry's hottest star. Home Depot has grown from four stores with sales of $22 million in 1980 to 145 stores that rang up $3.8 billion last year. Margaret McKenna, who watches the $110 billion-a-year home-improvement and -repair business for Wall Street's Smith Barney, sees "a wide, wide margin in the industry between Home Depot and everybody else...
...With the launch of the Emerald Lady last month, Fort Madison became the fourth of Iowa's Mississippi River towns to take a chance on riverboat gambling as a lure for tourism and a cure for economic woes. The others launched floating casinos on April Fools' Day. Now all are praying the joke won't be on them. Iowa's notion of melding nostalgic river travel with America's gambling addiction is already stoking competition up and down the river. Among the potential ventures...