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...that no one can leave the press area unnoticed. Onscreen, the Secret Service is out of position, and the Air Force personnel have disappeared completely. The real plane has fancy flares and infrared devices to deter a missile attack--much more effective than the chaff, intended to confuse radar, used in the movie...
...heat, there could well be life. Sometime after 2000, NASA is hoping to launch a Europa probe that will orbit the Jovian moon at an altitude of 60 miles--about the same distance at which Apollo spacecraft used to orbit Earth's moon--photographing its surface and taking radar soundings to look for water beneath its crust. If the radar picks up the telltale echoes of liquid, another spacecraft would be sent to land on Europa. Once there it would release a small cylindrical probe with a heated tip that would melt through the ice layer and propel itself through...
...lost opportunity. But on the cultural radar, presidential recognition barely registers next to playing a pivotal role in a popcorn movie. In last year's Independence Day, the seventh highest grossing film of all time, Bill Pullman's President Whitmore also assures an audience the government has nothing up its sleeve concerning UFOs and Roswell, only to be told by his Secretary of Defense, "That's not entirely accurate." Well, sure--otherwise the movie would be finished halfway through. Fortunately, the embattled Earthlings are able to use the recovered Roswell saucer against the invaders and triumph. Talk about vindication...
...Korea, the 43rd Surgical Hospital, which also happens to be the one on which the book, the movie and the TV show were based. "It was very, very un-Hollywood," says Gelbart. "The battalion band played the theme song and they cased the colors." But where were Klinger and Radar...
Nichols is eloquent on the dangers any single-hander faces: sleeplessness, storms, illness, and the danger of being run down by a freighter highballing at 22 knots with the radar off. But it is Toad, despondent, that commits the kind of suicide possible only if your hull is made of fitted planks. Its 10-year-old caulking gives way, and slowly, reproachfully, despite days of hard pumping, it settles beneath the water, 400 miles off Bermuda, shortly after its master is rescued...