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...long balloons are linked to ground stations by steel cables. Hanging from their bellies are 1,000-lb. platforms with $3.5 million in sophisticated radar equipment similar to that carried by AWACS planes. Though the balloons have been known to come unleashed (one wanderer had to be shot down in 1981), airborne radar is still more efficient than the ground version. It can pick up traffic in what Customs agents call "Smugglers' Alley," a wide band of Caribbean sky that is virtually invisible to land-based radar dishes because the curvature of the earth prevents them from detecting objects close...
...upstate New York of staunch Anglo Saxon stock. Everything about Hersey's protagonist is perfect for the story he wants to tell. We follow Treadup's youth in the late 19th century, his early interest in science, his athleticism, and his growth to study, 6-ft., 4-in., 230-lb. menhood. Hersey clearly intends these introductory chapters to create a dominant image in the reader's mind of the hidden (and sometimes not so hidden) impulses in American ideology which prompted the missionary wave almost a century...
...have to call Goetz a 98-lb weakling? Up against four strapping teenagers, most of us would look like weaklings. Premeditated self-defense is a perfectly rational response when one is confronted with four strong, savage, conscienceless youths. Laura Callahan Busch Chesterfield...
During the past four months, 300,000 ministers have received a box by mail bearing these words: A GIFT FOR YOU FROM SOME FOLKS WHO CARE. Inside are pamphlets, two books and six hours of doctrinal lectures on videocassettes. The 5-lb. gift packs are part of an extravagant p.r. effort by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's controversial, 45,000-member Unification Church of America...
...playing Hamlet. That would be like asking Jim Brown if he kisses on the first date; you may think you know the answer, yet be reluctant to pose the question. You might not even want to have a little show- biz fun with the 6-ft. 8-in., 300-lb. Hulkster. Billy Crystal got away with it on Saturday Night Live, but Richard Belzer, the pencil-armed host of cable TV's Hot Properties, was not so lucky. Four days before WrestleMania, Hogan was demonstrating a front chin-lock on Belzer, who went limp and fell unconscious to the floor...