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...wing up while bending the other down compensated for the unbalancing effect of the wind. The mechanical principle and its realization became clear to Wilbur one day while he was idly twisting a long inner-tube box. A historian would later equate the importance of this incident with Newton's observation of a falling apple. Biographer Howard is more restrained and more engaging when he attributes the insight to a "genius for the tactile" born of long experience handling wood, cloth and metal...
...event began early yesterday morning in the Boston Common with a kick-off rally, which featured speeches by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Mayor Raymond L. Flynn. The walkers followed a circuitous route through Beacon Hill, Newton, the Harvard campus and back to the Boston Common. Most participants finished in between five and six hours...
...When you cast extras, you are looking for certain categories of people, not experience. You need to match backgrounds and looks--you want someone who looks suburban to play a scene in Newton, and they won't look good for a scene in South Boston," the director said...
...million dollar gift-certificate to McDonalds and a trip for two to Hollywood? No? Well, how about a sort of layaway plan--say, 10 thou a year for the next hundred years at four and a quarter percent interest...I'll even throw in my new Juice Newton album...
...week after the Moscow meeting, TIME's Washington bureau chief, Strobe Talbott, took a call from Sakharov's son-in-law Efrem Yankelevich, now a resident of Newton, Mass. Yankelevich told Talbott that his father-in-law had sent a copy of the private speeches. Sakharov, said Yankelevich, had requested that a way be found to publish their text. Talbott and State Department Correspondent David Aikman, both of whom read Russian, studied the material and recommended that TIME print the dissident's views. This week the magazine takes an exclusive look at those statements, Sakharov's most detailed examination...