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...hybrid aircraft made up of four Sikorsky SH-34J helicopters attached to a helium-filled blimp, the Heli-Stat was the brainchild of Frank Piasecki, 66, a pioneer in helicopter development. Patented in 1961, the Heli-Stat could not find a sponsor until 1979, when Piasecki received backing from the U.S. Forest Service to build a vehicle for lifting lumber from remote forests. But development costs ballooned from an original estimate of $6.7 million to over $31 million, and the Heli-Stat managed to fly successfully for the first time only last April. The latest Lakehurst disaster may take...
...sh not much of a conversnationalisht, but she doeshn't give me no trouble," the strange old man yelled back, showing that if anything, he was no one to judge...
...else lives hee-ah?" O'Hara shouted upstairs as he entered the building and started up the stairs. Uriah was waiting for us on the second floor in wild-eyed confusion. "He'sh an epileptic," he whinnied, pointing up at the third floor. "Take it eashy...
Jews may be interested in the version of their central confession of faith from Deuteronomy (known as the Sh 'ma) as Jesus recites it in Mark: "Hear, O Israel: The Sovereign our God, the Sovereign is one." In Acts 3, in the interests of domestic balance, the customary list of Hebrew patriarchs is augmented by the names of their wives: "The God of Abraham [and Sarah], of Isaac [and Rebekah], of Jacob, [Leah and Rachel...
...veteran star of 126 films and Japan's most famous actor, but Toshiro Mifune, 63, is still known to American audiences by only a handful of movies, among them Kurosawa's Rashomon and the TV mini-series ShŌgun. In spite of his relatively low profile in the U.S.-or perhaps because of it-Mifune was honored last week at the Japan Society in Manhattan, which was beginning an eight-week-long, 40-film retrospective of his work. He surprised his New York audience by appearing at the gala opening in the costume yabusame, a centuries...