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John LeBoutillier III, a former Republican Congressman, heads Skyhook II. The group sends anguished fund-raising letters detailing the conditions it claims are being endured by scores of POWs in Asian slave-labor camps...
...Magic is 29 years old. Before too long, people will have to call him Earvin again. Kareem is 120 and his skyhook is even older...
...glide safely back to earth like a plane. This week the U.S. space agency is engaging in quite another sort of test. Flying "upside down" high above the earth, Columbia will try out a $100 million, Canadian-built "arm in space." Unless the Remote Manipulator System, as the huge skyhook is called in NASA jargon, really works, the shuttle will be unable to perform one of its key roles in space: to place satellites into orbit and retrieve them when they fail...
...Next it was Erving's, and the Sixers', turn. He had 23 points and seven assists with five blocked shots, two of them against Abdul-Jabbar himself. As the teams headed for Philadelphia for the weekend, fans savored the sight of Abdul-Jabbar's skyhook and Erving's skywalking. It was turning out to be, as admirers had believed all along, a dream confrontation come true...
...last pompon girl. With him is Marthe Keller, his mistress and representative of Black September, the Arab terrorist organization that is financing his attempt to turn homicidal fantasy into reality. Coming on fast is Robert Shaw, Israeli counterterrorist, who must shinny down a rope from a helicopter, attach a skyhook to the blimp and tow it away from the stadium before Dern sets off his destruction...