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Bird of Prey. The Concorde's arrival was amicable. Traveling light, with just 76 of its 100 passenger seats filled, the British Airways Concorde covered the distance from London to Washington in 3 hr. 52 min. and-after missing a light plane by a scant 400 ft.-slipped into Dulles at noon on Monday. Minutes after the British plane touched down, its drooping nose giving it the look of a giant bird of prey, the Air France Concorde, with 80 passengers aboard, touched down just as smoothly...
Most prognosticators felt the battle would be between Eliot and Kirkland, each of which won the preliminary heats last week. But it was not to be, as Mather took three quarters of a length by the 500-meter mark and then held on, covering the 1500 meters a scant one second ahead of Eliot...
...fears that sooner or later the army may move to seize power. "There is nothing to prevent them if they have a mind to do so," Seni told McWhirter last week. "They, after all, have the guns." Seni knows this all too well -he was Prime Minister for a scant four months in 1946 before being ousted by a military coup...
...only real excitement of the day came in the freshman race, where coach Gregg Stone's charges edged out the Lion's eight by a scant four tenths of a second...
Station To Station could certainly have been composed in a month (much of it resembled "Fame," the hit single off Young American that took Bowie and John Lennon a scant 45 minutes to concoct) by a man suffering from terminal ennui, but I'm not complaining, well, not much anyway. The album is a testament to the efficiency of the Bowie machine. Stripped as he is here of many cherished pretentions (adrogynous messiah, apocalyptic visionary, etc.) and locked into a disco beat, Bowie can still captivate us. It's a creditable and also slightly curious accomplishment...