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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago, after flying around the world in three stages. Smith is notorious for his publicity stunts, but his troubles were real enough. He was shot at by fishermen off Greenland, he landed in quicksand in Burma, and over the northern Pacific bad weather nearly forced him to miss a refueling ship. Smith's understated conclusion: "I was extremely lucky to get back. I would never try it again...
...Iliad. Furthermore, Aeneas himself, compared with the Homeric heroes Odysseus and Achilles, began to strike many readers as a stick-in-the-mud: pius (Virgil's repeated adjective), the kind of sobersides who would abandon the woman who loves him to her funeral pyre rather than miss out on his mission...
Under the new rules, workers who are away from their jobs without a good excuse will lose a day of vacation for each day they play hooky. If they miss more than three hours of work, it will be treated as a full day's absence. The penalties for overindulging in vodka are just as harsh. Anyone found drunk on the job may be summarily fired and will have to pay for damaged goods or lost production. Describing the new decrees, the party daily Pravda blamed not only workers but also managers who did not "set an example...
...strong avoidance-reaction pattern." They turned aside and squirmed and tried to avoid being struck, though they had no previous experience that would make them think that the approaching object would hit them. When such a cube or its shadow approached the babies on an angled path that would miss them, however, the babies followed its motion with their eyes but showed no sign of anxiety. "The consummate skill of these infants in predicting the path of the moving object is astonishing," says Psychologist Jane Flannery Jackson, "and their evident wish to avoid objects on a collision course is even...
...used on the kilometer they pay for. Ueberroth and Harry Usher, L.A.O.O.C. executive vice president, bought the first leg and invited Jesse Owens' granddaughter, Gina Hemphill, and Jim Thorpe's grandson, Bill, to be their runners. The meandering route from New York City to Los Angeles will miss such cities as San Diego and Miami. But, says Ueberroth, "if there are a lot of donors down there, we're flexible...