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...realistic sense of flying the shuttle, the two men are spending hours piloting a Boeing 707 to get the feel of a massive aircraft. They fly a nimble Gulfstream II outfitted with thrust reversers and side-force generators, to practice tricky touchdowns. They pilot a jet trainer adjusted to drop with a sudden lurch. The two pilots have also flown mission after mission in a simulator so realistic that three-dimensional views of space and the earth are flashed in the cockpit windows. While testing the pilots, the planners make sure what ever can go wrong does go wrong...
...greet John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. The week he was killed, J.F.K. stood beneath the first stage of the giant Saturn 1 rocket. While Wernher von Braun talked quietly into his ear of the day the monster would head toward the moon, Kennedy thrust his hands in his coat pockets, rocked back on his heels, and for a fleeting second or two in his imagination joined those voyagers far beyond earth. His eyes shone at the thought of what his country would...
...what Reagan said he would do. The semantics don't matter. What he said he would do is stimulate the private sector through cutting taxes, simplifying the regulatory morass and controlling the growth of Government spending. That's what should be the first and early thrust of this Administration, and in my humble view, that's what it will...
...thrust of the campaign, called "Safety in Numbers," is to promote student awareness about the dangers of walking alone. The University Police survey released last November found that 78 per cent of those sexually assaulted and 50 per cent of others assaulted were alone when attacked...
...American rituals of machismo apply a fortiori to Italian-Americans; the pathetic pulp idiocy of Rocky virtually created Raging Bull. It is the story of Jake LaMotta only as much as Taxi Driver was the story of Travis Bickle, for Scorsese's new film has the same epic thrust of the earlier one. But where Taxi Driver was about America after Vietnam, Raging Bull is really about Martin Scorsese; only this essential decadence keeps it from greatness...