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...winged Orwellian threat. During one flight demonstration, a grenade attached to the bomber's underside detonated prematurely and wiped out Bailey's one-craft air force. Undaunted, the designers are now at work on an unproved model. If successful, they dream of a fleet of RPVS prowling overhead long before...
...while her daughters, always anxious about her welfare, comforted her. When they were away, she sometimes tried on dresses she had saved from happier times for what she thought would be a serene retirement. Once when she ventured out the door, a photographer's plane flew low overhead. She fled back inside, as if in protest against all the forces that have conspired over a lifetime to deprive her of her privacy and happiness. "I don't think I would have chosen politics for my life," she admits. "It was what my husband wanted and there...
...school buses, and three busloads of police stood by to rush assistance to trouble spots. At South Boston High School, where jeering, rock-throwing gangs of whites have been continually menacing black students, a squad of 800 helmeted tactical police worked 16-hour shifts. A police helicopter hovered overhead, radioing the locations of suspicious gatherings...
...arrival in Damascus, the airliner circled overhead for more than an hour while Syrian leaders discussed French and Dutch requests that the plane be allowed to land. Permission was finally granted for "human reasons," and the plane taxied to an isolated part of the airfield. After an hour of negotiations, the terrorists disembarked to be taken to an undisclosed location...
...host country and do not use U.S. government funding, except for research programs conducted in this country. The United Nations has supplanted the Ford Foundation as the leading supplier of money; together they provide more than 80 per cent. The University gives no direct support and charges for overhead expenses. But most HIID personnel have Harvard teaching appointments, and a prime purpose of the new organizational setup is to allow Harvard faculty more chance for constructive and broadening service abroad...