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...than $1 billion for warships that were built but never delivered. In a footnote to the gulf crisis, about 90 Iraqi sailors are living on board two of the corvettes at the naval port of La Spezia. Every day they raise the Iraqi flag, rev up the engines and swivel their gun turrets...
Engineers have outfitted trains and tracks with tougher steel and replaced dual car axles with single axles that swivel to enable cars to take banked turns faster and more smoothly. To prevent meltdown at high speeds, wheels have been enlarged and coated with heavy polyurethane treads...
Justin perches serenely on a swivel-top stool, a wooly red scarf wrapped around his face. He lists his interests as "playing, rolling cars, and this"--he brandishes a crumpled package od Starburst candies...
Countless times you bounded up those stairs, flopped in a seat, while the Caroline rolled down a distant runway, headed for another city, another rally. Kennedy reigned in his swivel chair at the center of the cabin, barking at his campaign organizers, laughing at the pratfalls of the traveling press, sucking on Callard & Bowser butterscotch squares for his strained larynx, and showering the floor with the devoured pages of the day's newspapers. All the while a comely stewardess rubbed Frances Fox tonic into his luxurious shock of hair, a zealously tended political asset...
There is a sort of poetry in absorbing the details of the construction process. Many a day have I laid aside my books and stared intensely at the backhoes, as they scoop dirt up, swivel around, dump it elsewhere and pat it down. This is an immense improvement over watching the cars that sat stationary in the lot all day, which was the only distraction my window provided before the construction began...