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...governments to aerospace projects abroad. At the same time, the SST cancellation and severe slowdowns in space projects have taught the U.S. aerospace industry that Washington can be a fickle customer. Most firms have sought to minimize their reliance on Government-and in fact on the whole wild blue yonder-by pushing diversification programs that range from a Rockwell International venture into industrial knitting machines to Boeing's experiments with alfalfa production...
...just when he comes to realize he needs them both. He wrassles unsuccessfully with guilt when his best buddy, Clete (Slim Pickens), a rodeo clown who keeps an avuncular eye on Lew, gets his neck broken for his trouble. When last seen, Lew is wandering off over yonder hill, saddle over his shoulder, sadder but prob ably not much wiser...
...strange machines look as if they might suddenly dip flaps, lift noses and head off into the wild blue yonder, borne on small wings that protrude fore and aft, and sometimes in between. Actually the wings, or foils, have an entirely different purpose. They are aerodynamically designed to keep a dazzling new crop of racing cars glued to the ground in this year's Indianapolis 500, giving them better stability and traction and thus greater speed. This Saturday, as the traditional field of 33 cars challenges Indy's confining concrete-walled track, speed-much more than ever before...
There is indeed "only one sovereign Lord of all creation," no matter how far into the wild black yonder that creation exists. Far from quaking in our cassocks, Catholic priests welcome and bless those looking for life out there...
...solo crusade for a cleaner blue yonder, Guthrie routinely ordered mechanics to drain his holding tanks by hand before takeoffs. He says the process should take from three to five minutes. But Eastern told the mechanics not to obey him-"Each of our 3,700 pilots cannot make his own rules," said a company official-and flights were delayed by as much as 98 minutes until the captain got his way. The conflict of wills was resolved two weeks ago when the airline fired the veteran pilot...