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...Backe is a bright and capable manager's manager," says a CBS director. Adds a former colleague: "He has an analytical mind. He can be very warm and attractive, but he's tough in business. John also has a quality of dash that goes with his hobby of flying planes." Yet Backe is not well known at Black Rock -his offices were in a publishing house on Madison Avenue-and he will have to learn fast about the rest of the company, particularly its broadcasting area. He will get help, of course, from the man who likes being...
...really sure, when he pressed her, she finally answered, "We want to do something to help people--that's lucrative." When Wald, a leftwing activist himself, tells the story now, he adds a rather cynical final note: "And between people and lucrative, make sure you put a good long dash...
...sharp dive, leveling out 150 ft. over the waves of the Sea of Japan, followed shortly afterward by Russian pilots in hot pursuit. After flying this low for a short distance to elude Soviet radar, he climbed back to 20,000 ft. for the dash to Japan; a jet gulps too much fuel at low altitudes...
Belenko's trip to the U.S. was less dramatic than his dash to Hakodate. The Japanese government, not wanting to give the appearance of total collusion with Washington by allowing Belenko to depart on a U.S. Air Force plane, simply put him on Northwest Orient's Flight 22, which flies regularly from Tokyo to Los Angeles with a stopover in Honolulu. Startled by heavy security precautions at the Tokyo airport, the other 300 passengers soon guessed that Belenko was on board the 747 jet. "I hope we're not hijacked!" exclaimed one nervous passenger. Actually the flight...
...mile stretch of highway between Ann Arbor and Detroit, even housewives in curlers pretend they are Mario Andretti. But one morning last week drivers revving up for the dash to Detroit found all lanes blocked by a trio of cars traveling abreast at 55 m.p.h., the legal speed limit. Behind the wheels were Stephen W. Long, Elizabeth Ann Lipski and Bruce Nielson, three friends who had taken it upon themselves to enforce the law. Their cars were decorated with signs reading GAS SHORTAGE and STAY ALIVE...