Word: cooperation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best-known, high-altitude, highwayman, was a calm character calling himself D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 to Seattle last November, collected a $200,000 ransom and four parachutes, coolly bailed out as the plane flew on toward Reno, and was never caught. Immortalized in song and on sweatshirts, Cooper has inspired nearly half a dozen imitators, all of whom have failed. But a new spate of plane snatchings last week seemed to stem from the more recent exploits of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., 29, who came the closest to succeeding since the Cooper caper...
McCoy might have got away with it had he not in effect used the hijack to hitchhike home. Robert Van leperen, a Utah highway patrolman and close friend, recalled that McCoy, an enthusiastic skydiver, had talked about hijacking a plane in Cooper style. He may have put FBI agents on the skyjacker's tail; the FBI is not telling how it cracked the case. McCoy's picture was identified by a United passenger, and his military record yielded handwriting that the FBI said matched the ransom instructions. Less than 48 hours after he hijacked the plane, McCoy...
That evening New York's welcome began to warm up. Gloria Vanderbiit Cooper, who has known Charlie's wife Oona since they were both 14 (and who also once married a famous oldster, Conductor Leopold Stokowski), gave a dinner party for the Chaplins in her town house and invited 66 of the Manhattanites who matter. Among them were Theatricals (like perennial Film Star Lillian Gish), Actresses (Geraldine Fitzgerald and Kitty Carlisle), Politicals (Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits), and Literary-Socials (Truman Capote and George Plimpton). Winsomely self-deprecating, perched on his chair rather than sitting...
...Last of the Mohicans, BBC version of the James Fenimore Cooper story. 9 p.m., March 26. Chan...
Michael Schwartz, flutist, and Rick Cooper, pianist, play music of Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Messiaen, and Hindemith. Currier House Senior Common Room, 8:30, Sat. Free...