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...safe the plane or how economically efficient the ever increasing payload, any accident involving a huge plane becomes potentially catastrophic in loss of life. Boeing has orders for the 747-300, a model configured to handle 600 passengers. Asked if that seemed wise, Jerome Lederer, founder of America's Flight Safety Foundation, said that evacuation of so many people in the event of trouble would be difficult, adding, "I would want to sit next to an emergency exit...
...group tours of the Holy Land, Peter Hill has been in and out of the Middle East 105 times in the past two decades. On almost every one of those occasions, he has toted his camera in a carry-on bag. But as he was preparing for the long flight home from Athens last June 14, he found his hand luggage a bit overstuffed and decided instead to stash his 35-mm Canon AE-1 camera in the suitcase he would check through at the airport...
...only bit of luck Hill would know for the next 17 days. The flight he boarded, along with 144 other passengers, most of them Americans, was TWA 847, which was hijacked shortly after takeoff by two Arab gunmen demanding the release of 700 Shi'ites from Israeli custody. A few days later, as Hill, 57, waited anxiously with seven other American hostages in a house four miles south of Beirut, his keepers, who belonged to Lebanon's Amal militia, brought the prisoners some of the baggage from the plane's hold. "Luckily, my suitcase was among the bags delivered...
Finally, Coca-Cola's setbacks have extended even to outer space. Coke and Pepsi were aboard the latest flight of the space shuttle Challenger, but at a press briefing last week the astronauts said that neither soft drink was satisfying. Reason: the spacecraft has no refrigerator. Said Mission Commander Gordon Fullerton: "Warm cola is not on anybody's list of favorite things." --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Leslie Cauley/Atlanta, with other bureaus
DIED. J. (for John) Willard Marriott, 84, chairman of the Marriott Corp., who parlayed a nine-stool Washington root-beer stand started in 1927 into a $4 billion worldwide lodging and food empire that includes 142 hotels, 1,500 restaurants and flight kitchens serving more than 150 airlines; in Wolfeboro...