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...increasingly vulnerable to a succession of ever more sophisticated attacks from the air. In 1921, Army Air Service General Billy Mitchell demonstrated that rudimentary aerial bombardment could scuttle the most heavily armed warships, a lesson Japan put to good use when it nearly destroyed the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. Carriers that could launch swarms of fighter planes became the dominant sea weapon in World War II. Although the Reagan Administration has committed the U.S. to a 600-ship Navy with 15 carriers, some strategists consider flattops to be expensive behemoths. The problem with surface ships, argues Jack Beatty...
Even the most driven birders seem to harbor a few doubts about the chasing game. "It's ridiculous -- it costs more money than booze and takes more time," says Thompson Marsh, a professor at the University of Denver College of Law. Marsh, 84, who began listing birds in 1918, still hunts with the pack and is ranked fifth on the North American list. If someone wants to start a Birdwatchers Anonymous, says Marsh, he is ready to join. "I experience recurring intervals of lucidity," he says. "When a chaffinch turned up in New Brunswick, I stayed right here...
...ended up $70,000 in the red. In these more extravagant times, expenditures for the golden anniversary festivities exceed that, but confused organizers say they do not know by how much. Although scaled down from original plans to rival last year's Statue of Liberty centennial in New York harbor, the bridge's birthday will include a 50-gun salute, a flyover and fireworks, as well as the usual well-meaning but oddball gesture: the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce has built a bridge replica from empty cans of Spam, which is also marking its 50th anniversary...
...best known for her starring role in a play called A Woman Named Drown. In fact, this performance has given her the urge to get away for a while; after playing a woman accused of sleeping with a black, Mary thinks some of her Knoxville neighbors have started to harbor the same suspicion about her. Before long, Mary gives Al all of her late husband Stump's golfing togs, packs him into her Mercury and takes off for Florida...
...dreams of: a close association with the man who could be the next President. Although Broadhurst had limited political contacts outside Louisiana, he often traveled with Hart on forays through the South. On a Friday night in early March, Hart and Broadhurst were relaxing on a yacht in Miami harbor after a fund-raising dinner. As Rice tells it, she wandered aboard by chance and encountered Hart. She told the former Senator, "You probably don't remember, but I met you at Aspen." Hart admits he asked for Rice's phone number, and the next day, she says, he called...