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...constructed of aluminum modules and reached by helibus and Hovercraft. Architect Stanley Tigerman estimates it would cost a relatively modest $500 million. Closer to approval, however, is a $1 billion dike-protected jetport 35 ft. to 55 ft. below the water level of Lake Michigan and connected to the Loop by six miles of causeway, tunnel and bridge. Says Chicago's Aviation Commissioner William Downes Jr.: "The main objection comes from the save-our-lakefront fraternity who don't realize that an airport six miles out wouldn't be visible from the shore except as a large...
Dartmouth, the surprise team in the league this year, is now in second place with only one loss. The one defeat was at the hands of Yale, which demonstrated its superiority over the rest of the Eastern loop teams with a 71-42 triumph over the Indians. It was the Bulldogs' 49th consecutive...
When the National Hockey League created a new division made up of six expansion teams last season, cynical fans talked of the "dogmeat wing" or the "humpty loop." The derisive epithets disappeared when the upstart St. Louis Blues won the West Division playoffs, then forced the vaunted Montreal Canadiens into two overtime games before losing the Stanley Cup. St. Louis rooters can document to the day the start of their team's surge. It was the moment the Blues first...
...rocket while it is blasting Apollo toward the moon or unusually intense radiation from the sun, NASA has devised a number of alternative flight plans. Thus, Apollo 8 might merely remain in earth orbit, duplicating Apollo 7's eleven-day flight. It could also loop out as far as 25,000 miles from the earth and then descend into a low earth orbit for several days-or it could re-enter the atmosphere after traveling as far as 69,000 miles into space. Or, just as the Russians will probably do, the spacecraft could simply make a circumlunar flight...
...class English boarding school where golfing and keeping one's thoughts and actions dirt-free are more important than education. As the housemaster says, "When smuttiness comes smite it. And here we smite smut. Let there be no question about that. Our little golfers knock it for a loop...