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...March 1985, when Slick Six is expected to be finished, some 250,000 cu. yds. of concrete will have been placed. The estimated cost of construction: $570 million. That, however, represents just a fraction of the budget. Equipping the center with the latest computers and gadgetry will run another $2 billion. But size and expense are not what makes Slick Six unique. Says Air Force Colonel Walter Yager, commander of the Shuttle Activation Task Force: "There have been larger and more expensive projects, but I doubt if there have been any more complicated...
...pilot careful to avoid jerking the huge netted crate that hung like ballast beneath it. With machine gunners at the ready, it whirred low over the beachside terrain and headed for U.S. Navy ships on the horizon, there to set down its cargo just as gingerly. Meanwhile, 400 yds. to the west, a steady stream of landing craft nosed into a heavily fortified jetty and began collecting a seemingly endless line of forklift pallets lashed to more wooden crates. "The beach has been working 24 hours a day for the past two days," reported a Marine officer. "They are taking...
...stairs in the darkness, we found that the army billet in our lobby had suffered a direct hit. The ceiling had collapsed. The doors of our mailboxes had been ripped off their hinges. Not a window on the ground floor remained intact. We hastened to the TIME office 50 yds. away. As the night wore on, the fighting flared up again. Sleep was shattered; shells rocked the building. The tinkling of broken glass could be heard in the street above. Rockets roared overhead. Waiting for the next blast was almost as unnerving as the explosions...
After Harvard's Kimbro Stephens ran the 440-yds in a brisk 49.97 to earn second place. Thomas Quinn exploded in the 600-yd race, winning in 1:11.82 Quinn's strong performance set the tone for James Herberich, who secured second place...
...game all season until the playoffs. With breezy 121-and 154-yd. games against Pittsburgh and Seattle in the tournament, Allen and the Raiders are on a sprint. Plunkett throws downfield mostly to Christensen or Cliff Branch. But when the Seahawks concentrated on those two, Malcolm Barnwell caught 100-yds.' worth of passes in the first half alone...