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...military looked on, the two companies' project managers pushed the weapons to fly tighter and tighter maneuvers, lower and lower in order to test the equipment. Both suffered four crashes, but General Dynamics clearly came out the worse. Two of its missiles slammed into some isolated California scrubland during overland flights, and one started a small fire. On another faulty flight, the wings failed to unfold and the missile plunged into the Pacific like a rock. Boeing's flops were far less dramatic: two stemmed from communications foul-ups with the chase planes, one from programming errors...
...most celebrated man hunts in the history of the state. As many as 50 lawmen, including members of the vaunted Texas Rangers, combed the countryside, scanning the sagebrush and cactus scrubland from helicopters, throwing up roadblocks, searching bars, and rummaging through seedy Mexican border towns. For five days the hunt went on while the twelve wily fugitives eluded the long, sweaty arm of the law, even though their mug shots were splashed all across the front pages of the state's newspapers...
...along its entire 800-mile border with Mozambique, from the Zambezi River in the north to the Limpopo in the south. Local villages have been terrorized by black guerrillas, buildings burned, cars ambushed on lonely roads in broad daylight, buses blown up by mines. Army helicopters hunt guerrillas in scrubland and forested hill country along the frontier, and patrols in brown and green camouflage probe cautiously through the brush, automatic weapons at the ready. To protect themselves, white farmers have installed pushbutton alarm systems that alert police posts in case of attack. Fierce Rhodesian ridgeback dogs roam the grounds...
This is not to say that all the works in "Photography Unlimited" are good. Many display a gratuitous use of technique that cannot make up for a lack of interesting subject matter, composition or concept. James Hajicek's cyanotype triptychs of boring, lifeless western scrubland are boring, lifeless photographs, and Mark Harper, who obviously worked very hard at making three-dimensional constructions of fabric, etched silver and silkscreened glass etchings, achieves results that smack too much of kitsch and too little of real conceptual innovation. Happily, only a few works in the show share these flaws...
Port Charlotte, Fla., the largest of General Development's eight second-home or retirement projects, covers 120,000 acres of flat scrubland, inhabited largely by retirees recruited up North. Features include a 180-bed hospital, 30 doctors, twelve dentists and three pharmacies. But some of the streets are cracking and others were flooded last summer...