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...flashes and a pelting rain begins. Does it matter whether he ends up in Miami or only Guantanamo? "Who cares?" he asks. "So long as it's out of here." He has no job, no money, no prospects, he says; he must escape. But not today. He hauls his gear back over the seawall to his building across the street. His aunt, who has been watching the Castro speech, shoots him an inquiring look. "Tomorrow," he mumbles, brushing past her into their tiny apartment...
...timing devices require a level of technology available only to highly trained engineers working in well-equipped labs. Much of the lab work can be bypassed by purchasing ready-made plutonium pits extracted from dismantled nuclear missiles. These spheres have already been machined and need only the surrounding detonation gear to set them off. Yet so far, Russia has apparently kept close tabs on its sizable stockpile...
...were $135 and had to be purchased in pairs. In 1969 there weren't even official T shirts; in 1994 there will be an official CD-ROM. The Eco-Village, ostensibly devoted to educating the public about the environment, resembled a strip mall where you could buy clothes, camping gear and even Woodstock air ($2 a bottle). The promoters will reap an estimated $5 million to $8 million from pay-per-view fees: the concert was broadcast in 27 countries...
...greatest casualty is soprano Deborah Polaski, playing Brunnhilde, especially in Die Walkure. Tall, handsome, heroic in gesture and carriage, she should make an ideal goddess. But with her bulky breastplate and helmet and huge skirt, she looks like the typical porky Wagnerian. The Rhinemaidens are decked out in biker gear, the dwarf Alberich wears one bright green sneaker. A reference to the Green movement? Who knows...
...flyer has flown reliably for a quarter-century. Piper Aircraft Corp. of Vero Beach, Florida, made the famous Cub -- the little yellow plane that thrilled county-fair audiences with rides and stunts like the Flying Farmer, a "runaway" plane with Grandma on board and cornstalks streaming from its landing gear. Now the company is in bankruptcy. The $25 million annual budget that Cessna used to spend to promote flying has been used up in lawyers' fees...