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...they want to earn their wings. It is a tiny plane, half the length and one-tenth the weight of the F-16, the Air Force's smallest fighter. But its standard, 160-hp engine was not powerful enough to do spins and loops in the thin Rocky Mountain air over the mile-high academy. So a 7.7-liter, 260-hp engine was crammed into the 25-ft.-long plastic fuselage. With its enhanced power, the two-seat T-3 can fly 200 m.p.h. and make gut-wrenching turns in which the crew endures up to six times the force...
...Year's Eve, the family had gathered at the Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football game. The ski patrol was not keen on this bit of Kennedy showboating and had warned that it was a dangerous sport--skiing fast and close, without poles, tossing a football through improvised goals as the sun sank and the shadows stretched and the slopes turned gray and icy. Aspen...
Michael set off down the mountain with the camera and the small, soft plastic football. The run was about 150 ft. wide at the top and well-groomed but quickly narrowed as the trees closed in on either side. After the first goal Michael handed the camera off to a friend. "He skis off, he turns around to get a pass, he slams into a tree head first, he falls down unconscious," reports Hay, who says he was a few feet away. He heard someone say into a walkie-talkie, "Max, Max, it's an emergency! Ski patrol, ski patrol...
...help," said Michael Ferrara, a senior paramedic and the first member of the ski patrol to reach Kennedy. "Very quickly we realized there was one very injured man." He took over the CPR and helped fit Kennedy with a cervical collar. The ski patrol brought him down the mountain on a toboggan, covered in a yellow blanket. The Rev. Lawrence Solan administered last rites at Aspen Valley hospital and presided over communion for 15 family members. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 5:50 p.m.; the official cause of death was "massive head and neck trauma," and deputy coroner Tom Walsh...
Tomorrow Never Dies is fairly watchable, taken by itself. There are some nice scenic shots of missiles and jet fighters cruising over mountain ranges. There are many appreciably nifty action sequences involving vehicles of all sorts. There is also the usual bevy of beautiful Bond women, this time including Teri Hatcher, and a new twist to the series in the person of Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese dish who joins forces with 007 and is as skilled and equipped for secret agency as Bond...