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...Secretary around on her visit to the base. Known as BUFF, for Big Ugly Flying Fellow (or a more colorful variant), the B-52 is the largest bomber in the Air Force, 488,000 lbs. of titanium, aluminum and steel, rigged with eight Pratt & Whitney engines and a 35-ton payload...
...partner, Dixon asks, "Tell me, what'd I say?" The anachronistic allusion to Ray Charles' future rock hit will tickle the cognoscenti. The book teems with other familiar Pynchonesque diversions: a talking dog that appears near the beginning and again near the end of the story; a four-ton cheese called "The Octuple Gloucester"; a journey by Mason to the inhabited center of the earth; cameo appearances by a number of 18th century notables, including Benjamin Franklin, George and Martha Washington (who sing a duet) and Dr. Samuel Johnson, accompanied by his biographer-to-be James Boswell...
...ammonium nitrate, weighing 50 lbs. apiece. On Oct. 18, Schlender has said, he bought another 50 lbs. During a pretrial hearing in February, Schlender testified that the man "said he was a wheat farmer. It was an unusual transaction. It wasn't common for someone to buy a ton of ammonium nitrate." When FBI agents searched Nichols' home in Herington, they found a receipt for one of the purchases; it had McVeigh's fingerprint...
...Minnesota Vikings: Tarik Glenn, OT, California. This guy's stock has gone up a ton after he lost 19 pounds since his tubby showing at the scouting combine. He has also taken nearly half a second off his 40 time. If he keeps working hard like this, he'll be a force to reckon with since he is young...
...moment of contact [when Abeles hit the ball], we realized it was going to go out," Kreuder said. "It was definitely a shot--it cleared the wall by a ton...