Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Largely an outgrowth of work done at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Labs in collaboration with the FAA and private industry, the winning system meets two basic requirements. It can be produced in a relatively cheap (as little as $2,500) bare-bones version suitable for small private aircraft, yet it will also be compatible with sophisticated versions (costing $50,000) for larger commercial aircraft. In whatever form, no assistance is needed from controllers or radar stations to determine when planes veer dangerously close...
...limousine itself is impressive--for sheer size, to begin with. It is twenty-five feet long. It is white with a red interior of crushed velvet. The back seat is ridiculously far away from the driver. It is a Lincoln Continental and it was originally made for the movie Shaft. According to Gadlock. Elvis saw the limo in the movie and then decided that he had to have it. Who knows what was going through his mind? Maybe he wanted to be part of some cool new scene. Elvis started playing roadsides all over the south, and the audiences there...
...second you can feel the elation that was Elvis; the man who gave a whole region a little bit of pride. And then it's gone and the whole thing's just too damn sad. All of it--this couple traveling six hours to see a goddamn Lincoln Continental, the Delco car ad display, the shiny Granadas. All those idiots buying t-shirts and pictures of the grave...
...afternoon nap in his suite at the Waldorf Towers took care of that. Later the Prince donned evening clothes for a reception at Lincoln Center. Out front, some 4,000 pro-Irish demonstrators taunted the arriving guests, but the Prince slipped in through a back entrance. Thus he never got to see the fluttering placards vilifying the British presence in Northern Ireland. Read one of the more temperate messages: "The sun never sets on the British empire because God doesn't trust the Brits in the dark...
...hopes that his seat in heaven has an unobstructed view of Manhattan's Lincoln Center because the New York City Ballet has been putting on a rousing festival there in his honor, with 13 new ballets by six choreographers and several older works by the company's resident genius, George Balanchine...