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...prepare Hughes' food. But he also acted as his bodyguard and during the last three years, when Hughes was no longer able to walk, lifted him whenever he needed to be moved. It was Margulis who placed the emaciated Howard Hughes aboard the jet ambulance for his last flight???a scene re-created on TIME'S cover by Artist Jim Sharpe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...North Viet Nam. Dong was a university professor in the city. "Don't you trust your uncle? " he was asked. "No," he replied. A group of Indian haberdashers who had made a killing in the lucrative money-changing business made plans to escape by chartering their own Air India flight???in the hope that the plane could still make it to Saigon. Most airlines had already closed down all of their regular operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EXODUS: Turning Off the Last Lights | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...million for advanced ICBM technology. Included in it is money for a new nuclear warhead called MaRV (for maneuverable re-entry vehicle) that could change direction in flight???something no country's ICBMS do now?to evade defensive missiles. It also would be more accurate than any existing Minuteman warhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Arming to Disarm in the Age of Detente | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Miss Johnson's further objective was to beat the record of Flyer Harolc J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler who flew the same distance in 152 days (TIME. March 5, 1928).? All Britain hailed that flight???done in an 875-lb. Avro Avian at total cost of $250 ?as epochal in the history of aviation. Enthusiastic statesmen proclaimed that Hinkler "had outclassed Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Hinkler Rivalled | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

Died. George Lea Lambert, 23, of St. Louis, "Listerine" scion, vice president of Von Hoffman Aircraft Co., son of Major Albert Bond Lambert (official observer of the St. Louis Robin's endurance flight??? see p. 47); near Black Jack, Mo., when his plane crashed, killing also Student Pilot Harold Jones. Last year, flying from his graduation exercises at Princeton University, Airman Lambert crashed with his cousin and classmate, James Theodore Walker near Pottsville, Pa., killing Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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