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Starting last July, Boeing and General Dynamics each made ten test flights. Most were held over the bleak wastelands of the Utah Test and Training Range, near Dugway, Utah. The missiles were programmed to sprint at 500 m.p.h. round and round an aerial race course 100 miles long by 30 miles wide. In later tests some cruises were dropped from B-52s 60 miles out into the Pacific and programmed to fly back over California and Nevada to Utah. Air Force F-4 Phantom chase planes closely followed to observe and take over the missiles by radio control if anything...
...time or energy. Worse, Sellers found the principal location, the Biltmore mansion in Asheville, N.C., cold and depressing in the winter. As usual, he found it impossible to leave his role on the set and walked around inside Chance's deadly placid character all the time, offering responses as bleak as the weather to everyone. Says he now: "It was hell for my wife...
...much commercial energy as nine Mexicans, 16 Chinese or 1,072 Nepalese. More than 90% of the total manufacturing capacity is located in wealthy developed countries, which increasingly block imports of industrial products from the poor nations. The explosion of oil prices has pushed the needy countries into a bleak house of poverty. The combined debt of the Third World has grown from $70 billion at the end of 1970 to $300 billion today...
...American flag never comes down at 395 Concord Ave. in Belmont. Illuminated at night and resilient through foul weather, the Stars and Stripes provides the only glint of color near the bleak rectangle of red bricks. This is a decidedly no-nonsense building, surrounded by an equally no-nonsense post office and public library. No doubt about it, there is work to be done at the national headquarters of the John Birch Society, 12 minutes from Harvard Square...
...closing of Dodge Main came a half-year ahead of the schedule announced last May by the Chrysler Corp., hastened by disastrously low auto sales throughout the summer and fall. But like the majority of the Dodge Main workers turned loose into the bleak Michigan winter, Wanda is not too hard-pressed financially. Under a company/union agreement, workers with the greatest seniority will have first dibs on jobs elsewhere. (Many may go to the Jefferson Avenue assembly plant, a nearby facility that will produce Chrysler's new front-wheel-drive small cars for next fall.) Wanda has worked...