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...cannons roared, and screaming jets traced the five-ringed Olympic symbol in the sky. Onto the rust-colored track at Tokyo's National Stadium trotted Yoshinori Sakai, a 19-year-old student who was born near Hiroshima just hours after the atomic bomb fell on the city. Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, Sakai bounded up a flight of 179 steps, thrust it into a cauldron of oil. Flames leapt up, and halfway around the world, in Manhattan and Mexico City, sports fans watched the dramatic moment on TV-relayed with marvelous clarity by the satellite Syncom III, orbiting...
...that I was born a female, so the way to the Classroom, so easy for others, was denied me. To be one of those deserving ones, who are easily borne aloft to the Light, is not my destiny. I must work out my burden. My way must be the hard way, and so I proceeded to climb the stairs with my beloved Classmate and guide leading...
...circled cautiously. He climbed to 16,000 ft. and his strange craft handled well at unnaturally slow speeds. Then an indicator showed that one of the six engines was overspeeding; White had no choice but to shut that engine off. He flew through a simulated landing while still aloft, then curved into the landing pattern and touched down smoothly...
First came the single-engined-plane test; aloft for little more than ten minutes, Gregory brought the red and white Cessna-150 to a perfect, gentle stop, shook hands with a newspaperman ("That boy's palm was barely moist," he reported to the crowd), and bounded on to the twin-engined-plane test. The red, white and black Aztec swooped without a tremor to the skies, made a landing the pilot's mother called "soft as a marshmallow," and was welcomed to earth by a drum-and-bugle corps that sounded a fast fanfare. Gregory fidgeted; a bystander...
...uneasy with his accent but nonetheless nimble as Bert, the cockney chimney sweep, whether hoofing it with a quartet of penguins or leading the sooty male chorus in a raffish rooftop ballet. Ed Wynn, as the risible Uncle Albert, floats upward every time he laughs, and soon has everyone aloft for the movie's most engaging scene, a high high tea. Though overlong and sometimes over-cute, Mary Poppins is the drollest Disney film in decades, a feat of prestidigitation with many more lifts than lapses...