Word: thunderbirds
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...cars gleam amid old Skelly gas signs and an antique manual pump frozen at 19 cents a gallon. A juke box features Sinatra, the Ink Spots and Peggy Lee. The colors are spectacular. There's the two-toned gray and salmon '55 Bel Air and the silky green '57 Thunderbird convertible. How could a country look at cars like that and not fall in love...
...Mackenzie, born in 1930 in London to an Englishwoman and an American journalist (who ran the Associated Press's London bureau), graduated from Dartmouth College and went to film school at the University of South California. There he conceived his study of Native Americans; he planned to call it Thunderbird, after their favorite wine. He worked out the story with the main characters, whose reminiscences he taped and used as the voiceover narration...
...driver" in charge". But others, like former chief of staff Merrill McPeak, think that is shortsighted. "Norty is a good guy, though obviously not cut out of the mold as a fighter pilot," says McPeak, himself a one-time lead solo pilot with the Air Force's Thunderbird fighter-jet flying team. "The important thing is to have a feeling about airpower and its capabilities, not to come from any particular piece...
...said. “We are trying to ascertain not only what the students want, but what is going to meet all the requirements technologically.”FAS IT released the results to its annual undergraduate survey last week that showed an increasingly widespread use of Gmail and Thunderbird forwarding services and a dissatisfaction with the FAS Webmail interface and inbox size. Aware of these rising concerns with FAS e-mail, Harvard’s IT has been developing solutions but says it is still too early to release any fixed plans for how it can resolve undergraduate complaints...
...threats. New Mexico concentrates on high explosives. It has another facility, a 40-sq.-mi. range in the mountains outside Socorro, which actually blows things up. There, this class watches from half a mile away as plastic explosives rip through two offices, mangling their dummy occupants. Later, a 1988 Thunderbird with 200 lbs. of ammonium nitrate in the trunk erupts in a massive geyser of flame, raining jagged steel onto the barren hills...