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...swept back quite so dramatically as that of the Lockheed model, a fact that should make the B-2707 slightly more efficient at subsonic speeds, slightly less so at its maximum cruise speed of 1,800 m.p.h. And while Lockheed planned to build its plane without a horizontal tail, the Boeing version will have a relatively conventional tail configuration...
...Nigerians claim they shot the plane down--McGuire believes it crashed of natural causes, one might say--but one thing is sure; it was demolished. "The tail, that's the only thing you can see, sticking up in the jungle." Aboard were Augie Martin, a black American pilot earning a little extra money while on vacation from Seaboard World Airlines; Martin's wife Gladys, whom McGuire thinks had come along to gather material for an article on Biafra; Jess Meade, also an American: and a Rhoedesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire...
...captain for 50 years, Gifford, 71, had his first encounter with a giant blue off Bimini in 1936. "I was skippering for a fisherman named Mike Lerner," recalls Gifford, "and we hooked into this fish at 3 p.m. What a scene that was! The marlin jumped 25 times, and tail-walked through the entire fleet of boats. At one point, he jumped so close to my boat that he threw barrels of water into our faces and darned near drowned us. We fought him for eight hours until he straightened a 14/0 hook into a hatpin and broke...
...deadly pass over the lush, green terrain. Were they flushing out Viet Cong? Hardly. The enemy, darting around some 7,000 seaside acres of Monterey County, south of San Francisco, was Microtus californicus, a grey, nocturnal field mouse that measures no more than 4 in. from tip to quivering tail, yet threatens most of the nation's artichoke crop...
...circle, mobile tactics was winning the day. Only once did it appear that the tail New Yorker's authority would be questioned--when a black man of the fringe of the circle called out "Where are you from...