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Where once only sagebrush and tumbleweed dotted dull gray desert, a modern hotel ($94 a night), a 4,300-ft. airport runway, a two-story redwood shopping center and strings of small wooden houses now adorn the hills. A sophisticated sewage-treatment plant draws raves from visiting experts, and wildlife officials marvel at the increase in birds that breed in the long-barren acres...
...bellies, an avian comedy. On land, they flop along on their stomachs. When it rains, they mistake highways for lakes, come down like thunderbolts. People are always tending their abrasions and taking them back to ponds. To take off, they need as much as a quarter-mile of liquid runway, and no one can watch the spectacle without praying Godspeed−they have to try so hard. They are an aeronautical nightmare, a nautical dream−they are faster than fish, which they eat. Grown, they weigh up to 9 Ibs. They sleep in the water. The only adjective that...
...descend like a silver hawk in search of prey. As it shattered the sound barrier, a thundering crack! seemed to rend the sky in two, and a cheer swelled from the crowd below. Within minutes the ship had rolled to a halt along the right side of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, kicking up massive clouds of dust. Not since the landing of the first shuttle had NASA officials been so openly emotional. Said Mission Commander Hank Hartsfield: "We've got a good bird there...
...afternoon was a fashion show in which the models included the wives of James Baker, Jack Kemp and Robert Michel. They were introduced by both their own name and their husband's name, and a notation of the number of children each had. The hit of the runway parade was a 3-ft.-tall mink elephant...
...fighters that may be en route from Eastern Europe, or by a squadron of Soviet MiG-23s reportedly stationed in Cuba, but the Sandinistas deny it. All the U.S. and Nicaragua seem to agree on is that, at some 4,400 yds., Punta Huete will have the longest runway in Central America...