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When the wrangling began last year, Republicans had high hopes of chipping away at the 243-to-192 Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. Seventeen seats had to be transferred from ten states in the Northeast and Midwest to eleven fast-growing states in the West and the South. Moreover, population shifts within the states themselves-largely from Democratic cities to Republican suburbs-promised to threaten dozens of Democratic strongholds...
...jetliner took off. Seventeen seconds later, already alerted to the danger of a stall by the rattle of the control stick, Wheaton tried to will Flight 90 aloft. "Forward, forward. Come on, forward. Forward! Just barely climb." Five seconds later Pettit knew it was over. "Larry," he said, "we're going down, Larry...
...Seventeen tables were provided for student organization--including Hillel and the Blood Drive--in a hall leading out of the registration area...
Some of the 80 shows the Thunderbirds had been scheduled to perform this year in the U.S. will probably be canceled. The Air Force, however, has no thought of disbanding the Thunderbirds, despite the risks and deaths. Seventeen pilots have been killed in accidents since the Thunderbirds began flying in May 1953, two last year. But the Thunderbirds have enthralled 154 million spectators in all 50 states and 45 foreign countries. Overseas, they demonstrate U.S. aerial prowess; at home, they serve as a flying recruiting poster. Says Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr: "There will be criticism, that...
...DOWN,a comedy of the Old West, begins most promisingly. Its failure to live up to our expectations, after the void of the first two plays, makes this third one possibly the most disappointing. Set in a whorehouse in Nebraska, 1896, the story revolves around Allison (Linda Cameron), a seventeen-year-old making her debut in Mrs. Push's (Frances Shrand) establishment. Her third floor "Celestial Chamber" invaded by an aging bandito (Bart McCarthy), she first tries to bed him, believing him to be her first customer. When he finally convinces her that he is on the run, she hides...