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DIED. EVELYN TROUT, 97, daredevil pilot of the 1920s and '30s; in La Jolla, CALIF. The first woman to fly an all-night route, trout was the last surviving member of the inaugural All-Women's Transcontinental Air Race, from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, Ohio, IN 1929--an event Will Rogers dubbed "the Powder Puff Derby...
...tourist's checklist, up there with a visit to the Grand Palace, a kickboxing match at Lumpini Stadium, shopping at Chatuchak weekend market and a longtail-boat ride to the Temple of the Dawn. Tourists get palpitations, incipient lung spots and bragging rights back home; in exchange, the smirking pilot gets a sweaty handful of baht and the chance to strike terror into visiting souls...
...procedure for the $130,000 research project, financed by the National Science Foundation, is an expanded version of a pilot project begun in 1964 by the two men and now being completed...
...Veterans of the first Gulf War, and harbingers of the next one, these figures are realistic mimics in every important respect except for their defense against chemical and biological weapons. Clearly these soldiers are rooted in the conflict with Saddam Hussein; the action-figure of an Apache helicopter pilot even comes with detailed maps of Baghdad, which show strategic targets within the city...
...supports a rebellion against Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno. The rebels fail, and an American mercenary pilot working for the agency is shot down and captured with papers revealing his employer...