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...began airhitching, the last leg of a summer hitching to-fro' across America, by turning my back on I-90 and following the signs for the Billings, Montana airport. I had grown tired of hitching on a ramrod highway flopped down in dusty desolation and sustaining tin-diner towns. The west's rusticity and bo-hunk spirit sickened me. Two months on a ranch splitting wood, driving cattle, digging ditches, setting up fenceline, chewing tobacco, chasing chickens and pigs, and slaughtering sheep had sapped my pioneering, yahoo spirit. I longed for the sophisticated East, the blue rhapsody of New York...
...next morning, a blazing, mid-west, reverential Sunday, I weaved through the long, tin hangers looking for a plane flying east. I passed a small truck speckled with camouflage paint next to an opened hanger. Inside the hanger a figure with a blue beret, a khaki bush suit and a pipe checked the flaps of his blue and white Cessna. I made my approach. He looked up, checked me over, removed his pipe, grinned, and said, "I went to Groton, where...
...Everything, from the reined jet to a sharp-boned and muscular Doberman, jutted sleek, Steinberg angles. Everything, that is, but an unshaven guy snoring in a wood chair propped against a wall with his boots on a table. He wore a Beech-nut "chaw" cap and kept a spit tin on the floor next to the chair. The Doberman sat poised as it grew dark outside, pointing to the jet with sleek, black skin and a sharp snout...
...American dependence has focused attention on the size of current stockpiles and the feasibility of developing new domestic sources. Since World War II the Government has maintained strategic stockpiles of 93 key materials, including tin, copper and titanium, for use in a national emergency. Some are critically low. Only 32,000 tons of titanium are stockpiled, far below the 130,000-ton goal. Cobalt reserves are 22,000 tons short of the 43,000-ton target...
...cold, near and far, big and little. "These are dimensions that eight-to twelve-year-olds use themselves in organizing their own experience," says Chen. For example, to demonstrate that sound consists of vibrations, Marc and Lisa play with a toy telephone made by stretching a string between two tin cans. Then the scene shifts to two cartoon characters who joke about dialing wrong numbers. To introduce gravity, 3-2-1 Contact skips the traditional account of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple and shows a Hollywood stunt man plummeting from a four-story building; sensibly, Marc refuses...