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...late five-run surge salvaged a potentially scandalous affair, which the Crimson led 12-0 after its half of the second...
...late five-run surge salvaged a potentiallyscandalous affair, which the Crimson led 12-0after its half of the second...
...strangers, all in the hope of getting a pass home. Without money or connections, she asks, "What's a girl to do?" The cute girl is a broken woman now, a soldier's trophy. All along, she has been coquettishly courting disaster--a prom date with death. Now that affair will be consummated...
PAUL MACCREADY In 1977 one of MacCready's creations, the Gossamer Condor, a kitelike affair powered only by a furiously pedaling cyclist-pilot, flew more than 7 min. Two years later, the Gossamer Albatross, an improved model, was pedaled across the English Channel. In 1981 a pilot took the sun-powered Solar Challenger 163 miles from France to a base in England. No wonder the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1980 named MacCready its Engineer of the Century. In the years since, MacCready has fashioned such marvels as the wing-flapping pterodactyl that flew in the IMAX film...
Unfortunately, reality caught up with Turing well before his vision would, if ever, be realized. In Manchester, he told police investigating a robbery at his house that he was having "an affair" with a man who was probably known to the burglar. Always frank about his sexual orientation, Turing this time got himself into real trouble. Homosexual relations were still a felony in Britain, and Turing was tried and convicted of "gross indecency" in 1952. He was spared prison but subjected to injections of female hormones intended to dampen his lust. "I'm growing breasts!" Turing told a friend...