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...aircraft violently. The door gunners respond with bursts of pinkish red tracers that hit the ground like sparklers. Even at 1,000 ft., the ground looks too close. The firing from the ground gets lighter and we come in low, blurring at treetop level for nearly half a mile. The blossom of a purple smoke grenade opens beneath us. Four figures run toward us carrying a man. Before the wounded and unconscious officer is even inside, we are taking off again. The soldier who brought the officer on board sits beside him and holds his hand during the ride back...
Richard B. Black, 48, won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1978 for running the fastest continuous vertical, mile, up and down the stairs of Chicago's Lake Point Tower (time: 2 hr. 9 min. 45 sec.). Now Black has achieved a very different kind of notoriety. He is a chief executive officer who is suing the company he worked for. Black has filed a lawsuit that accuses his former employer, AM International, and some of its ex-executives of misrepresenting the firm's financial condition when he was hired a year ago. Black...
...form of salt licks and shallow caverns. Below the skin of the earth it lies in white veins, some of them thousands of feet deep. It can be evaporated from salt "pans," boiled down from brine, or mined, as it often is today, from shafts extending half a mile down...
...Denver every week or so to look for oil and stayed in a condominium he and his business partner had bought there, and David drove to EI Paso every Monday to work in a Boy Scout camp. To get to the movies they drove at least three miles, and even though the Safeway supermarket was about a quarter mile from their home, they never walked. Liz thought nothing of flying to Shreveport, La., to visit friends from her temple youth group...
Herlihy, Strickey and Beckford will run the mile in next weekend's national meet at the University of Northern Iowa. Joining them at the meet will be Kate Wiley, who Saturday chopped about three seconds off of her own school record to take...