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...with ship scientist to plan graphs for research project on the reliability of navigational aids. Prepared graphs. Lunch. 1 p.m.-7 p.m.: directed winch operator in lowering net for ocean...
Some of the adventure toys are truly freaky. Woolworths has an aisle devoted to the Megabugs--Megaspider Gladiator, Scorpion Megabug and Dragonfly Megabug. They are "the combat machines of the future." They cost $8.29, but include "bug bomb, working winch and insect sound." You can manually operate the wings on Dragonfly Megabug...
...that bearded guy with the boyish grin and the funny accent on the TV commercial for American Express cards. Millions have seen Pavarotti's live performances on public television: the 1978 solo recital from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, for instance, or this week's La Gioconda, winch PBS transmitted from San Francisco across the U.S. and by satellite to Britain and Europe...
...called the cops. Usually this equipment is left on the job site when work crews head home. Watchmen are too expensive for many contractors, and the ones that are posted are easily overpowered by thieves. Says Hugh Goulding, vice president of Howell Tractor and Equipment Co., "The thieves simply winch it onto a lowboy trailer and drive it away...
...novel chronicles the postcombat experiences of four World War II infantrymen: Mart Winch, John Strange, Bobby Prell and Marion Landers. All noncoms from the same outfit, three of them wounded, the fourth ill with the same kind of congestive heart condition that killed Jones, they ship home from the Pacific to a military hospital close by Luxor, a fictional Southern city on the Mississippi. There "the days passed with a swift inexorability that was the essence of a tragedy in a drama." And there the four muddle through a sequence of implausibly pathetic fates. The rushed, bumpy narrative seems less...