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...touring Australian and built a copy of nylon and aluminum. Says Kilbourne: "One day I didn't have much else to do, so I decided to hike up the hill and try the kite. I launched into the strong wind, and I could almost just hover. I was floating down the hill maybe two miles an hour. I realized then that if I had a bigger kite, I could have been flying up the hill, soaring...
Penn's obvious strategy--one that has worked for both squads over the past two years--would encompass a bird-dogging tactic, wherein four or five runners hover near the top two Crimson men, and force them to run off their normal pace, alternately passing them, until they burn...
This fall, American women are destined for crisply cut blazers, tailored and pleated skirts, Argyle sweaters, traditional tweeds, meltons and flannels. Colors will be bright and clear. After the mini-midi debacle of last year, hemlines will generally hover cautiously around the knee...
...former writer and correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Addie Pray is his fifth novel and his third to be sold to the movies (the others: Kings Go Forth and Stars in My Crown). Brown has a special feeling for the Depression-era South, and the touches of nostalgia that hover like hummingbirds over his narrative are most often exactly right -like Addie's partiality to strawberry Nehi and Nu Grape or a quick, vivid portrait of a small-time fair...
...Unemployment, which rose last month to 6.2% of the labor force, matching December's nine-year high, will still hover around 6% by year's end if nothing is done to put more muscle into the recovery...