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...merger of McDonnell Co. and Douglas Aircraft. The contract calls for design and production of an initial 20 planes at a cost of $ 1.15 billion not including the cost of the engines, for which a contract has not yet been awarded. But the total order could easily swell by 1975 to some 700 planes and $8 billion. At an average price of $13.5 million per plane, by one estimate, the F-15 would be the costliest fighter in U.S. history...
...turns out, I really didn't have to worry; the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players do a swell job of making this kind of flufly-puffy opera delightfully accessible. Sitting there listening to all those super waltzes. I suddenly realized that even I know something about music. For hadn't Johann Strauss written the score for last year's 2001 in collaboration with his brother Richard? Sure. Opera is all around...
...front is pulled loosely up and back into a topknot. Underneath, along with the remainder of the hair, can generally be found several ounces of wool twine or a nylon mesh cushion, the better to swell the structure to second-head proportions. Hanging down at strategic intervals (at the temples, around the ears, and down the back of the neck), are separate, curling tendrils of hair. The whole thing may look like the work of a bird who flunked nest building. Yet at $17.50 per neglect-job at Kenneth's Manhattan salon, the elegant lady can-and must-look...
...Boorstin also has going for him the gracefully stark set, costumes, and lighting (by Bruce West, Joan Minto and Jim Harrison, respectively) and a swell rock band, The Rhythm Method, whose rendition of John Hall's music for "Morning" give that play the ersatz soul quality that helps make it tick...
They also believe that their ranks will swell only while they are in the process of making revolution. The crux of their ideology is that the revolution can't wait...