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...than--I should start at the beginning. Living in Claverly during sophomore year was painful enough, but living next-door to one of those notoriously-beautiful laxwomen made the experience doubly fraught with peril. Which to dread more: stepping out into that dingy hallway and facing that bleak linoleum runway, or stepping out into that hallway and coming face to face with this year's Cover Girl, fresh from some disturbingly-athletic activity...
...blind cannot lead the blind. No amount of regulations will ever substitute for good judgment. There should not have been double operations on that runway under that extremely limited visibility...
...police force, and a busy, private-commercial airport with 15,000 employees. That morning, it seemed, all 15,000 had called in sick. Little airplanes squatted in neat rows, roped to the tarmac to brace against the wind. A flag flapped and clanked above us. Nothing stirred on the runway, or in our parking lot, or by the hangars. We hoisted our packs, draped our ponchos over them and set off through what had become a downpour to find St. Thomas...
PORTLAND: Pilots complain that the Oregon airport does not provide satisfactory runway lighting for approaching planes...
HONOLULU: The main airport does not have approach lights for landing, and lacks runway groovings to help aircraft brake. The association charges that the procedures used by Honolulu's control tower need "review...