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...entered the annals of aviation a second time. A prurient daredevil, he found that his new device facilitated a midair assignation with a female flight student?thereby unofficially inaugurating the Mile High Club. Things almost ended tragically that day: Sperry's boat plane went crashing into a New York bay, where two bewildered duck hunters saved the naked couple...
...Setting the Record Straight Terms of the Lease In our report on the U.S. military detention center at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba [Dec. 8], we mistakenly said that in 1903 the U.S. leased the base in perpetuity from Cuba for "2,000 gold coins a year, now valued at $4,085." The original lease called for an annual rental of $2,000 in gold, an amount that today would be worth about...
...Bataan Shipyard & Engineering Co., at the home of Zaldy and Racquel Eusebio. Neighbors say the couple was quarrelling and Racquel threw a candle at her husband. The Eusebios say a candle simply fell over. Either way, a conflagration began. The slum extends well into the fetid shallows of Manila Bay, and neither the fire department?which dispatched 84 trucks?nor the coast guard could penetrate its twisted lanes...
...scandal has rocked Italy and is prompting calls for more reform in a country famous for family entrepreneurs and infamous for the chaotic structure of their companies. The latter keeps the taxman at bay, but it's one reason Italian companies have had difficulty attracting foreign capital. Parmalat was supposed to be different. Tanzi got his start in business as a 21-year-old, when his father died and he took over the family's small prosciutto-ham factory. On a trip to Sweden, he noticed milk packaged in cartons and brought the concept to Italy. Later he adopted...
After all, it is just that mind-set that has kept challengers at bay for 13 straight—Olympians and non-Olympians alike...