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...ascent and descent. This gives the chopper-balloon a distinct advantage over traditional lighter-than-air ships, which must drop ballast or spill their gas when taking on or unloading any cargo. Yet because of the buoyancy provided by its supply of helium, the Aerocrane should be able to loft heavy cargo much more efficiently than a conventional helicopter...
...Harley says, in a left over row of dingy closed-out storefronts by the train tracks--in the center of the industrialized area off Route 23 just beyond Mr. Flood's Get Your Foreign Car Fixed garage and Super Gas at the bottom dip in Main Street. Behind the loft lies a fenced-in junkyard facing the Huron River and the rusted factory on the opposite bank. Harley figures that the Great turned Kimberly Rath on, but he can't be sure...
...players who filed into Chess City's smoke-filled second-floor loft on Manhattan's Upper West Side last week ranged in age from six to 50. With the persistent chutzpah of the true chess buff, each one figured he was the equal of a grand master; and each one plunked down $25 for the right to trade gambits with Boris Spassky, the former world champion. The simultaneous matches quickly turned into a boisterous chess happening. Six-year-old Robert le Donne bounced in toting his schoolbag; another player brought along a sustaining bottle of borsch; a third...
...neighbors, many of them also artists, are living in what were once taverns, pizza parlors, barbershops and grocery stores-and liking it. "I dig the flexibility that this allows," says Chicago Art Institute Teacher Phil Morton, who beds down in an overhanging loft at the rear of his converted junk shop...
...wife Annie in a $150,000, split-level three-bedroom house on a wooded slope near Aspen. Folks coming to call on Denver sometimes have to track him down on nearby ski trails or golf courses or, at the very least, up on the roof in a glass-enclosed loft where he likes to watch eagles through a telescope. "There is no artifice to John," says Folk Singer Tom Paxton. "John is a Druid, a tree worshiper, an elf, a sprite." Just the man, perhaps, to take the curse off music that makes people feel good...