Word: tornados
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With your story "A Conditional Reprieve" [April 20], you published a picture of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger sitting in a Tornado jet at a British airbase. Would you explain how a plane with German air force markings, accompanied by air force officers in German uniforms, was at a British airbase...
Three nations-Italy, West Germany and the United Kingdom-are participating in the development and production of the Tornado jet. Pilots from these nations are receiving their initial training in the use of the plane at Britain's Cottesmore Royal Air Force Base. The German officers had their own planes flown in from West Germany for the program...
...Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon shell stopped at one-millionth of a second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourrée; Pablo Picasso holding a penlight in his darkened studio, carving a picture out of thin...
...across America's prairies this winter, spring and summer. The gale force conservative bluster was supposed to blow away liberal senators Frank Church of Idaho, George McGovern of South Dakota, John Culver of Iowa and Birch Bayh of Indiana like so many mobile homes in the path of a tornado. But now it seems that the eye of the storm might, just might, have passed and that the winds of the hurricane have turned back upon themselves...
Herbert Hunt hocked his 8,748-acre ranch, which stretches through three counties in South Texas, and a collection of Roman and Greek statues and busts, including a 5th century B.C. dancing satyr. Brother Lamar Hunt pledged money due him from his holdings in the Dallas Tornado soccer team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. Lamar also added his art collection. A prized possession: Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs, which he bought last October for $2.5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for an American painting...