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...Detroit's air in a screeching rumble. "Hold onto your seat boy, or it'll go right up your ass with the rest of the rig," he said with the deep blue lights of the runway shining in his eyes. He drew the throttle back. The lights turned a thinner blue, and the g's shot my head into its rest, as the Lear tore out of Michigan and ripped to 40,000 feet...
...order to cut down costs, airlines are now developing ingenious means of conserving fuel. Planes are flying higher, since the thinner air at lofty altitudes causes less drag, thus giving more miles to the gallon. At Eastern Air Lines "dog legs," or indirect routes to include out-of-the-way stopovers, have been eliminated. Heavy jet-fuel drinkers like the Boeing 707 are being phased out in favor of more abstemious planes, like the DC-10 or the 747. In order to cut 60 to 250 lbs. off a jet's weight, Eastern has even stripped the white paint...
After a Jan. 10 news conference in which President Karmal castigated the Western press, the Afghan welcome wore thinner. Two Italian TV newsmen were treated to a burst of semiautomatic rifle fire at their feet when they tried to film Soviet soldiers near the Salang Pass. A Kabul-based stringer for Germany's Der Spiegel had her car tires shot flat. TIME'S David DeVoss, traveling with Dutch Photographer Hubert Van Es, was stopped by Soviets northwest of Kabul when Van Es tried to photograph some newly widened artillery pits. The pair was held in a snow-filled...
...distances get shorter the quality gets thinner. Top sprinter and tri-captain Joe Salvo, who ran his first injury free season for the Crimson last year, is back on the trainer's table with a groin pull. He'll sit out today, but is expected to return soon...
...decree started a wave of more casual dress. Men were discarding suit jackets (the equivalent of reducing their workspace temperature by 3°), loosening or shedding ties (saving another 1°) and wearing short-sleeved shirts. Women in offices were turning to halter tops, looser fitting clothes and thinner fabrics...