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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...building--located at 7 Divinity Ave. and scheduled for completion in late fall or early winter--exemplifies a dilemma the Faculty faces with many of its structures: safety or savings--both aren't possible, but both are wanted. The scenario is similar to that confronting the car manufacturers--better crash protection lowers the mileage rate and vice versa...
...report also describes the scene at Desert One, even before the crash of an RH-53 into a C-130 transport plane, as one of confusion. The reason: lack of precise operating procedures, because there never had been a full dress rehearsal. The main reason for that, again, was the planners' understandable but overdrawn concern for security...
...reports that two C-141 Medevac planes were standing by at Saudi Arabia's Dhahran Air Base with twelve doctors on board to treat casualties from the team that was to have assaulted the embassy and the foreign ministry in Tehran. But no one had reckoned on the crash at Desert One that took eight lives and left four others badly burned. Incredibly, the Medevac planes were equipped for every emergency but burns...
When seen from the exit leading off Interstate 17, 73 miles north of Phoenix, it shimmers in the summer heat, a mirage-like vision that somewhat resembles parts of battlestar Galactica crash-landed in the desert. Arcosanti. The name alone suggests hallucination. It is derived from arcology (architecture concerned with ecology) and cosanti (Italian for "thing before"). An engineer showing off the unfinished structure's apses and arches proudly describes it as "the city of the future taking shape in the state of the past...
...news program that night, the BBC replayed the shooting as a news event, and a few days later offered a weekend for two in Dallas to the person who supplied the wittiest explanation for the crime.*(This summer the network is also providing a crash course in Ewingology: a rerun of all 54 shows, one a night.) British bookmakers seized on the golden opportunity. William Hill's set odds on the assailant's identity. (The favorite, at 6-4: Dusty Farlow, the "deceased" lover of J.R.'s wife. Others: J.R.'s mistress, 4-1; his banker...