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...flaked and faded word Caroline painted in aqua script across the bulbous nose of an old Convair fuselage looms up unexpectedly and stuns you. There sits one of the most evocative remnants of Camelot, silent in the pale winter sun, assaulted by the sounds of pizza parlors and service stations. The suburbanites of Silver Hill rush by this tiny corner of Maryland uncomprehending. Thirty years ago, the world knew. Two engines would belch smoke and roar a message of adventure, as John Kennedy staked out his New Frontier across the nation...
William Stevenson has worked up in the bomb bay, and he says softly, "It's eerie. There are not many artifacts about which you can say, 'That altered the world.' This one did." You know what Stevenson is talking about when you climb into the plane's greenhouse nose, and you try to imagine how the nuclear fireball must have etched the day with its hideous brightness...
...characters do seem to have a liberating effect on the Pudding itself (as well as giving the writers a chance to make wonderfully reminiscent '70s references throughout, including everyone's favorite Brady Bunch line, "Oh, my nose.") This year's show dispenses with several annoying traditions of years past, and will hopefully prove a trendsetter for future productions...
...Europe's 200-employee corporate staff in Zurich is known for moving with great speed, notably in its agreement last December to acquire 50% control of Swedish carmaker Saab for $600 million. GM whisked Saab from under the nose of Fiat, which until the last minute thought it would be the successful suitor. GM Europe was also quick to set up a joint manufacturing agreement with Hungarian producer RABA, the first West European company to sign such an accord...
...Yiddish word kochleffl might well have been coined to describe Professor of History and Literature John Clive, who died last month. I never knew him in the classroom and never would have known him at all had he been able to keep his nose out of other people's business. Yet because he could not, he became one of the dearest people I knew at Harvard...