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...means a slow plane -- the average speed on last week's run was only 103 m.p.h. -- so Burt Rutan included a canard, the extra wing at the front of the fuselage that is his trademark. Reason: If a plane flies too slowly, its wings lose lift, causing it to stall and perhaps crash. But the canard is tilted more steeply than the main wing, so it loses lift first. When that happens, the nose drops, and the resulting minidive immediately speeds the plane up, thus providing extra lift. For increased strength, both canard and main wing are attached...
...wonders of the East! The household goddesses that gaze down from every other wall and stall in Chiang Mai and Mandalay are the very picture of mysterious beauty. Their girlish tresses are dark and lustrous, their complexions delicately olive, their looks a spicy blend of innocence and experience. And the names of these exotic sirens are . . . Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Beals. From the go-slow huts of socialist Burma to the go-go bars of socializing Bangkok, the hands-down pinups of Southeast Asia are the Yale flashdancer with exactly two movies to her credit and the pouting young starlet...
...they compromised and holed it. That was for a three at the par-four ninth. Nicklaus faced a 25-footer for another birdie at ten. "Oddly enough I felt comfortable over it and made it." At eleven, a 20-footer rolled in "as pretty as can be." Rather than stall him, a bogey at twelve actually gave him steam. He birdied 13, eagled 15 (a three at the par five) and nearly made a hole in one at 16. The noise rippling across the course was unmistakable...
Their scoring done, Bernie and Bruno took charge of Brown's stall game...
Another woman was accosted in an Andover Hall ladies' room on another day, said Baker. A man allegedly entered the bathroom and stuck his head under an occupied bathroom stall...