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...Murphy and other members of the staff stress that it is undesirable and unrealistic for the Advocate to attempt to attract too broad a readership. "It wouldn't be necessarily elitist to say that not everyone can understand poetry," says David Longobardi '84, whose position as "Pegasus" on the magazine entails scheduling poetry readings and other literary visits. "It's the nature of art to be esoteric," he insists. "Criticizing the Advocate for being esoteric because it deals with art is like saying that the Journal of American Medicine is esoteric because it deals with medicine...
...would have relegated Fokker to the role of a subcontractor. In McDonnell Douglas, Swarttouw found a perfect fit. The deal was finally cut during three months of secret meetings earlier this year, many of them taking place in hotel rooms booked under the name of a nonexistent corporation called Pegasus...
Freddie Laker, the poor man's Pegasus, is walking on air. His Laker Airways' no-frills Skytrain, a bold gamble to lure passengers between New York and London with a pinchpenny round-trip fare of $245, is paying off like the Irish Sweepstakes. After seven months of operation, an ebullient Laker reported last week...
Somewhere off Pearl Harbor, the crew of the high-speed Pegasus put their ship through its paces so that Halstead, hovering in a helicopter, could get a glimpse of the Navy of the future. To photograph one of the new Spruance destroyers, Halstead was hoisted up a 150-ft. mast by crane and perched on a 16-in.-wide platform. To capture the magnitude of the Lexington, he was taken in a small boat across the bow of the mighty ship so that he could shoot up at the great gray mass, a view akin to the cover painting...
...conscious self should be entirely responsible for marshalling and arranging all my thoughts, for it simply did not know enough...I began to suspect that thought, which I had always before looked on as a cart horse to be driven, whipped, and plodding between shafts, might be really a Pegasus, so suddenly did it alight beside me from places I had no knowledge...