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Wrenching decisions are what Pixarians have to make, just as the exigencies of the market are what they try to ignore. The title, for one thing: it's pronounced rat-a-tooey and refers to a Mediterranean vegetable stew, which not everyone will know or, knowing, will care about. And then ... well ... rats. They are typically figures of fear and loathing, and the Bird team hasn't prettied them up. Though Remy's coat has a lovely bluish sheen, and he often walks on his two hind paws, he is recognizably a rat, much closer to his species than...
...current issue of Ms. magazine, Writer Lindsy Van Gelder describes an encounter her twelve-and nine-year-old daughters, masquerading as sophisticated older women, enjoyed with a long-distance correspondent. "I'm French-kissing you now," cooed the would-be seducer. To which the kids promptly typed: "P-tooey...
Died. Carl Andrew ("Tooey") Spaatz, 83, architect of American air strategy during World War II; of heart disease; in Washington, D.C. A wiry, energetic West Pointer, General Spaatz directed the bombings that paved the Allied path from Africa to Sicily to Italy, then engineered the massive daylight bombardment of crucial German industrial targets. He later carried out the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after his opposition to the atomic bombing of cities had been overruled. When the Air Force became the military's third full branch in 1947, the erect, taciturn general was named its first chief of staff...
...turned out for every Christmas bird census since the first one in 1900. But the vast majority of birders are not professional ornithologists but eager amateurs, who have found birding a challenging and relaxing hobby. Among them are such noted specimens as retired Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, Columnist Walter Lippmann, Author Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Alfred Barr, director of collections at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...would be if there were some way to do airborne refueling on a continuous basis." Quesada later got Eaker to push his idea with high Air Corps brass. The result was the famous Question Mark flight of 1929, in which Quesada and future bannerline Air Force Generals Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and Ira Eaker participated. Refueled by a second plane, Question Mark, an Army Fokker monoplane, stayed aloft for a record-breakin 6½ days, and it made aviation history: in-flight refueling has long been an essential technique of the U.S. Air Force...