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Hannah's characters were always at the very end of a very frayed rope. But still, they were refusing to go down with any sort of literary decorum. They wanted to tug on your coat for a minute. They wanted to explain things, to explain how it was to be so much in love that it was "driving you into a sorry person." They were yahoos and warriors, gigglers and killers, they were pilots and brain-damaged tennis pros. If they were funny--and they usually were--they were also noble as the last minutes of desperation dragged...
...voluntarily. Las Vegas fire department officials, for example, claim they have urged the MGM Grand Hotel and other hotels built be fore the 1979 building code to install sprinkler systems and smoke alarms, but to no avail. "Retrofitting of the older hotels has always been an economic tug of war," says Clark County Manager Bruce Spaulding. Perhaps now they will. Says Gordon Vickery, director of the U.S. Fire Administration: "We usually lose people in ones and twos, and the public doesn't pay much attention. It takes a disaster like this...
Voyager 1's performance was the equal of the marvels it found. Commanded only by its own computers, the robot soared past the mysterious moon Titan, approaching to within 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of its shrouded surface. Gathering ever more speed under the tug of Saturnian gravity, it plunged downward toward the outer edge of Saturn's rings, swirling bits of cosmic debris. Reaching a peak velocity of 91,000 km (56,600 miles) per hour, Voyager skirted within 124,240 km (77,200 miles) of the planet's banded cloud tops for its nearest...
...celebration, Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium looked like a banana republic during the final game. More than 600 policemen -some mounted on horseback, others hauling on the leashes of snarling attack dogs-surrounded the field during the final inning. With 65,838 fans thus held at bay, Relief Pitcher Tug McGraw threw a third-strike pitch past Royals' Outfielder Willie Wilson with the bases loaded for the last out, and the title belonged to Manager Dallas Green's team...
...only the 40th time in 453 World Series games, play went into extra innings. With a full house of noisy fans on their feet for the duration of the tenth inning, the Royals pushed across the winning run at last. With two men on base, Philadelphia Relief Pitcher Tug McGraw walked Brett, preferring to pitch to First Baseman Willie Aikens. Bad move. Aikens, who earlier had become the second player in history to hit two home runs in his first World...