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...basis of radar sightings and strange sonic "air quakes," aircraft buffs have been speculating for years about the existence of a secret U.S. spy plane they call Aurora. The speculation is over, says Jane's Defence Weekly. A definitive report prepared by the British military-affairs journal describes the stealthy craft as a triangular-shaped hypersonic jet fueled by liquid methane and capable of cruising at Mach 8 (5,280 m.p.h.), 2 1/2 times the world record. Jane's key piece of evidence: the report of an aircraft- recognition expert who actually saw the plane fly over a North...
Following the Saturn example, the Oldsmobile division plans to produce some new models that will bear no mention of the Olds name or its rocket logo. The first will be Aurora, a full-size sedan that will go on sale in 1994. While GM may continue to de-emphasize the Oldsmobile nameplate, the company has no plans to shut down the division entirely, contrary to rumors that it might do so. In its new guise, Olds plans to concentrate on midsize cars to compete with the likes of the Ford Taurus and Toyota Camry, giving up most...
...drive his crusade or its impact. His updated rhetoric provides a paper-thin layer of respectability to a noxious creed that appeals to alienated white youths like Shawn Slater, whom Robb is grooming as a future Klan leader. An ex-skinhead, Slater now heads the Klan's chapter in Aurora, Colo. Like his mentor, Slater has mastered the art of attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January, he orchestrated a Klan rally on Martin Luther King Day that turned violent when anti-Klan protesters threw bottles, overturned a police car and battled...
...favorite thing Trevor does is when he starts skating pretty slow and then smashes into the curb and uses the momentum from the crash to do a front flip and lands back where he was," says a wide-eyed Aurora Lucia, 11, who often sees the team practicing where she skates...
...usually peerless Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show, two funny, sad, marvelously human novels about the Southwest, misses badly with THE EVENING STAR (Simon & Schuster; $23). The new novel, a sequel to Terms of Endearment, is big, flabby and aimless. It picks up Terms' Aurora Greenway in her 70s and deals lengthily with the impotence of her 80-year-old lover, who has taken to exposing himself. There's more, equally jokey and unfunny. Before the book's midpoint, the reader asks himself the question that should have occurred to the book's editor...