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...years Western Air Lines Pilot Charles Criswell had loved flying. So he was glumly anticipating his 60th birthday, the age at which Federal Aviation Administration rules required that he relinquish the flight controls. Unwilling to be knocked out of the sky so abruptly, the pilot put in to be a flight engineer, the second officer on many commercial flights who flies the plane only if the pilot and copilot are incapacitated. But Western had an age- 60 retirement rule for flight engineers too, and Criswell was grounded. Seven years ago, he and two others sued, charging that Western's rule...
...Brockton, Mass. Roussos burbled with good feelings as he told reporters that the gunmen were "so nice to me, I cannot tell you." In fact, said Roussos, he had sung for his captors at their request, and they had presented him with a cake on his 39th birthday, which had occurred on the second day of the hijacking...
Karen Ann Quinlan could never know that she was a famous legal case, that her "right to die" was the subject of a book, Karen Ann, and a movie, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, or that on her 31st birthday this past April, cards of good wishes came from all over the world. Throughout all this, for more than ten years, she lay in a coma, curled into a fetal position, shrunken to little more than 60 lbs., unable to see or speak...
...tech bow and arrow, Rambo knives and an assortment of toy guns, including a semiautomatic job that squirts a stream of water 10 ft. Youngsters will soon be able to pop Rambo vitamins, and New Yorkers can send a Rambogram, in which a Stallone look-alike will deliver a birthday message or carry out a tough assignment like asking the boss for a raise. The U.S. Army has started hanging Rambo posters outside its recruitment offices, hoping to lure enlistees. Rambo fever is even spreading overseas. The film has already broken box-office records in Beirut and the Philippines...
...working at a local Volkswagen plant when he was arrested. Eleven years later, Stangl's assistant, Gustav Franz Wagner, accused of involvement in the killing of more than 250,000 at Treblinka and Sobibor, was discovered following a police raid on a party of former Nazis celebrating Hitler's birthday. The Brazilian Supreme Court refused, in turn, bids by West Germany, Poland, Austria and Israel to extradite him. Wagner, the "Human Beast," was a free man when he committed suicide...