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...intricate elaboration designed to show Homer the error of this decision. Irving gives the orphan an escape from St. Cloud's in the persons of Wally Worthington and Candy Kendall, a glittering couple who come to St. Cloud's for a familiar reason. Wally will someday inherit Ocean View Orchards, a thriving apple farm just off the Maine seacoast, and Candy will someday marry him, once Dr. Larch terminates the symptom of their careless passion...
When they leave, Homer goes with them, an unofficial adoptee of the Worthington family. Growing apples strikes Homer as better than the business of St. Cloud's: "What he loved about the life at Ocean View was how everything was of use and that everything was wanted." This Edenic state does not last for long. Wally, still a bachelor, goes off to fly a B-24 in World War II and is reported missing over Burma. Homer and Candy have come to love each other, as well as Wally. The result of their mutual grief and consolation is predictable...
...drivers. Maryland has a program encouraging CB operators to call in reports on drunk drivers. Since July 1982, more than 20,000 such reports have yielded almost ( 3,000 drunk-driving arrests. Says Kent Milton of the California highway patrol: "The problem is still enormous. It's a gigantic ocean with a lot of fish and very few fishermen...
...never got there. About two hours into the three-hour flight, over the ocean near Yakushima, the lead helicopter radioed that it had developed transmission problems and was turning back toward land. Moments later, with 17 Marines aboard, the aircraft plunged into the Pacific. The second helicopter apparently spotted men in the water and dropped dye markers and a raft, but after a 24-hour search by planes and ships, no survivors were found. The cause of the crash remains unknown...
...board the shuttle Challenger last week, Physicist Don Lind could not contain his wonder. "The streaks of light we're seeing are really spectacular stuff," he radioed to Mission Control in Houston. The shuttle, about 200 miles above the ocean south of New Zealand, was passing through the top of a green-and-pink aurora--a huge, glowing band of light generated by charged solar particles hitting the atmosphere. It was the first time that the shuttle had actually flown through an aurora...