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...Havilland Canada Twin Otter set down on the ice at the North Pole a few days ago. The ice cracked and the plane began to sink slowly into the slush of the Arctic Ocean. Everyone clambered out onto safer ice: two crewmen and seven tourists...
...middle of nowhere the rancher will come upon an oil "location" that he has leased to drillers. The work is deafening, unclean and, of course, extremely profitable. Oilworkers seem weirdly surly and uncommunicative for this part of the country, like punk rockers, Ahab's harpooners, aliens. The chemical "slush" from the hole in the ground gushes up into a loathesome open pit lined with a sort of Hefty...
...lift-off speed of 147 knots, thus putting it farther down the runway than normal when it ascended. The plane stayed aloft less than 30 sec. and reached a maximum height of 337 ft. when it should have been much higher. Investigators are looking into the possibility that runway slush slowed the plane on takeoff. They also wonder whether ice formed on the aircraft or its engines before it plunged into the Potomac, killing 78 people...
Thus matters stood last week: Coppola hurtling through space with the Zoetrope mortgage in his teeth as 6,000 New Yorkers-1,000 freebies and 5,000 paid-squelched through hock-deep gutter slush into the theater. There was a satisfactory array of the famous on hand, and the famous-for-being-famous, somewhat too swaddled against the cold to glitter: Arlene Francis, Paul Simon, Norman Mailer, Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Adolph Green, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Andy Warhol, Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli. It is important at such events that especially celebrated ladies be whisked quickly through the crowd before...
...citizen rebellion is building: Ralph Morrell, 62, heads a small watchdog group called Operation Slush Fund and has spent the last year exposing the legislators' "unconscionable extravagance." Lee Phelps, 51, is president of a statewide coalition called Citizens Asserting Supremacy over Taxation (CAST). Says he: "There are no controls, except by the legislators themselves. We've got to change the rules in this game where the legislators play around with our money. We've got to become the umpire." To that end, CAST has collected most of the 554,000 signatures necessary to put a measure...