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...crews the B-52 is known as BUFF, a fairly loving acronym that stands for Big Ugly Fat Fellow. But there are Air Force men who think it should have been put out to pasture long ago in the Arizona desert, along with the retired squadrons of B-29s and B-50s. Some of them are hoping for a variant of the expensive but supersonic B-1 bomber, especially in view of the new Administration's defense policy...
...BUFF and one tanker aborted on the ground, victims of a balky generator and an engine "trouble" light that would not go out. A second B-52 had to quit formation; its right front-landing gear would not retract, so it could not keep up. Officially, the Air Force has high confidence in these old planes and the young men who fly them. Despite the much vaunted Soviet air defense network, they believe the B-52s can get through, take out their targets, and perhaps even return to base...
...story on the way to falling in love. Daryll is disarmingly direct in telling Tony how much he loves her, has always loved her, and always will. His offer to wax the floors of her apartment constitutes the season's most original metaphor for sexual foreplay ("Then I buff it gently, till it beams"), and, when he finally gets her into his bed, he warns, "I'll tell you right now, it's going to be wonderful." It is. Eyewitness is, after all, a romance of attractive opposites...
...beamed joyfully as neighbors filed into her modest house in suburban Washington to help clean up after the freedom celebration. One friend tried to buff away the cigarette burns on the living room furniture; another stacked empty champagne bottles in a back room. At 2:10 p.m. the phone rang, and a friend laughed into the receiver, then shouted: "Well, it's about time you called! Ask your wife what happened at your house last night...
...shakes. Finally, Grand View Point comes in sight. Walk to the edge, 6,000 ft. above sea level. To the northeast, the La Sal Mountains loom, while before you in the distance tower the Abajo Mountains. Spread out below is an immense rock garden, burnished red and brown and buff. The sun bursts through the clouds, first lighting the Six-Shooter Peaks, then Cathedral Butte. The Colorado and Green rivers meander deep in the shadows, carving their signatures into the mesa with canyons 1,200 ft. deep. Five miles away, the joined rivers let out a thunderous roar...