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...next afternoon I was standing at the urinal in a restaurant bathroom on Royal Street. An enormously fat bearded man in cut off shorts and a muscle t-shirt walked in to the next stall. He leaned one pudgy arm on top of the partition and stared balefully down at me. He spoke. "Eat good food and get fucked up, man. That's what life's about...
...Robert Byrd. "This is an alarm bell." Coming one week after an anti-contra House vote on the $40 million, the close Senate vote reaffirmed that Congress is in no mood to humor President Reagan by approving more money for the rebels. The Administration had been cautiously planning to stall until next fall on its request for $105 million in new contra aid. Last week, however, U.S. officials said the rebels will need additional funding well before then. The Administration plans to push for new appropriations before the summer recess...
...former associate of Roger Staubach's in Dallas, calls Elway "simply the best quarterback I have ever seen." As Morton viewed it, the push then to the overtime field goal, which devastated Cleveland, 23-20, was an inevitable extension of the storied drive. At every Bronco stall afterward, the moral was the same. "I knew if anyone could do it, it was us," said Place-Kicker Rich Karlis. "We have John Elway." "When you have John Elway," Bishop said, "anything is possible." "Anytime you have John Elway," said Reeves, "you have a chance." Since New York is favored...
...airframe design. In gaining an extra 41 tons -- nearly a 25% increase -- without additional wing surface, the B-1B had acquired an extraordinary "wing loading" of 245 lbs. per sq. ft., twice the weight carried by the commercial Boeing 747. The added weight means the plane is prone to stall when the pilot attempts complex escape maneuvers. New stall- inhibitor and stabilization mechanisms will ease the problem but will make it more difficult for the B-1B to execute maneuvers vital to survival. Pilots complain that the heavy load makes the aircraft "fly like an elephant...
Trying to determine if the racket came from an engine problem, the captain reduced power on all four engines, although it would have been safer to check one of them at a time. The loss of speed took the Electra close to its stall point, but the first officer was not monitoring airspeed and altitude as he should have been. The plane stalled and struck the ground. The NTSB criticized the lack of crew coordination and concluded dryly, "The captain attempted both to determine the cause of the vibration and fly the airplane simultaneously, which he was unable...