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...chill of Newfoundland when their chartered DC-8 jet failed to sustain its takeoff from Gander International Airport. The blue- and-white plane rose less than 1,000 ft., then smashed, tail first, into a small hill, disintegrating in flames about a half-mile from the end of the runway...
...good twelve miles. Pilot Griffin was first told by the tower to take off to the west, which would have put the plane quickly over the town of Gander and its 12,000 residents. Fortunately for the town, the wind shifted and the captain was directed to use a runway toward the south...
...accents of color that the gold picks up and reflects, like the green fragments of beetle wings that peek out of a 19th century man's coat. Gharara, billowing pants favored by both men and women, have a sensuality that could liven up any ready-to-wear runway in Paris, although a contemporary designer might look for certain practical modifications. Some of the gharara at the Met are so long and wide that they trail behind the wearer and have to be carried like the trains of wedding gowns...
...female fashion model in a leather outfit struts down a makeshift runway in the auditorium at Roscoe Pound Hall. She sports a Russian-style cap terned with sparkles that spell out the afternoon's motif: "trendy...
...fact, students didn't know what they would be doing on the runway until shortly before the opening curtain, said Ritchie C. Banker '86, one of the models and a resident of Eliot House...