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...also plans to continue flying planes--his immediate plans include joining a two-year training program to be a pilot in the air force reserve. This type of training for combat flying entails mastering aerobatics and low level flying. He explains that the the challenge of becoming a fighter flyer is "learning to do loops and spins and turns at 50 feet off the ground at 600 miles per hour...
Gretzky is glad for the home stand, not because he objects to the road --"It's one of the most fun parts of the game"--but because he is the sports world's most overwrought flyer since Broadcaster John Madden. "What may stop him is that flying," says his father Walter, from whom he inherited the queasy sensation. On Canadian airlines, Gretzky is brought to the cockpit for soothing by the pilots. It is hard to express what a towering figure he is north of the 49th parallel. His $21 million hockey contract extending to the end of the millennium...
...homeless as scapegoats. A Fort Lauderdale city commissioner suggested rat poison as a topping for local garbage, then retracted the statement and recommended the use of chlorine bleach instead. In Santa Barbara, Calif., a 35-year-old drifter was found shot to death in December, and a flyer was circulated threatening more violence to the homeless who camp there. Jerry Hill, an Episcopal priest in Dallas, says that people who camp at the outskirts of the city endure "tremendous abuse by young punks who prey on them and beat them, sometimes very sadistically...
...Grand Camp exploded in a blast that rattled windows 150 miles away. Flames leaped 700 ft. to a nearby Monsanto plant that produced styrene, a combustible ingredient of synthetic rubber. Minutes later the Monsanto plant exploded, setting off fires throughout the city. On April 17 the freighter High Flyer, also loaded with nitrates, exploded in the harbor. The toll: 576 dead, 2,000 seriously injured...
...least 7 million travelers participate in airline frequent-flyer programs in the hope of racking up enough mileage to earn free tickets to exotic locations. Yet roughly half of such customers fail to use the awards they receive. As a result, these coupons have become a hot new commodity, bought and sold by at least a dozen upstart brokers. The secondhand awards often present a sizable saving for the purchaser, even after the broker has taken a 20% to 40% commission. For instance, one broker was recently offering roundtrip, first-class tickets from New York City to Los Angeles, normally...