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Evans' somewhat impulsive style and his insistence on rapid change had nettled some veterans on the staff. Said one who preferred getting such predictable photographs as the Queen cutting a ceremonial ribbon: "Thank God we won't have to go about like blue-bottomed flies chasing pictures any more...
...pushes off another stowaway. He sprawls on the ground a yard beneath us. The one interloper who did make it into the craft does not talk. He sits in the doorway, legs swinging in the rush of air, staring at the volcano, where the sun has set, leaving a ribbon of red across the sky. Nobody says anything on the way back...
...Avalon--to a curious breed of proper nouns whose senses have passed over the centuries from the epic to the cheap and commercial. Once the name was instantly recognizable as the hero of Ariosto's 16th-century narrative poem; now it conjures up the strains of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon "Round the Old Oak Tree" and the sun-soaked giant mice of Disneyworld, Florida...
...meaningless gesture and taking the debate one step further: "Perhaps the most fundamental objection to draft registration is moral." Last week, President Ronald Reagan regretted to inform us that military realities had forced him to break his promise on abolishing registration. He had new information from his blue-ribbon manpower task force: registration would save six weeks in a potential mobilization, rather than three to five days, as had once been assumed...
...hand off from Jim Herberich, Murrer tried to pass Brown's anchorman West, whom he had just beaten in the 500, but was unable to keep up with him. With just steps to go, Murrer came out of nowhere and passed West to be the first to break the ribbon...