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...operated U.S.Danish airfield, regularly made an unnecessarily wide circle, taking care to keep their wings level and the plane steady. The observers suspected that the Soviets were carefully photographing the field-one that Russian planes almost never visit-and their suspicions were confirmed when they saw men in the tail camera ports of some planes. It may be assumed that the cameramen also keep busy when Moscow's mercy fleet circles Halifax and Bogotá, Colombia, two other refueling stops along...
...which you think are most dangerous. First you see clouds of smoke and dust on the ground. In the air, the missile is a relatively long body. You get to see it only for a split second. It's a silhouette with an orange-yellow flame on its tail. Your eye is attracted by the flame...
...contemplating discarding the food-service wagons that clog the aisles. Continental Airlines, which began 747 service on the Los Angeles-Honolulu run two weeks ago, reduced its seating capacity from 360 to 335. Using the extra space, it added a tourist-class bar and lounge in the tail...
...satire of American manners has the unmistakable staleness of frozen dogma. "The American businessman who takes his wife to dinner is in trouble if he's in Europe. He can't follow the conversation. Rodin, Caravageio, Proudhon, who the hell are they?" This is like mocking the tail fins on American cars. It would be entirely possible to write a damaging satire of U.S. businessmen in Europe, but they don't have tail fins any more, and their wives serve up Caravaggio's chiaroscuro on Triscuits...
...journalist -have disembarked through an airlock, the ship frees itself from the station, drops back toward earth and re-enters the atmosphere at a sharp nose-up angle that quickly slows it down. Like the mother ship, it then fires up the fan jets hidden in its tail and flies to a landing on an ordinary airport runway...