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...walking stick without which even his incredibly slow progress would be impossible. The buck-toothed man, as if drawn by Grosz, handing out the fundamentalist Watchtower. The butcher-like businessman who refuses his subway seat to the cripple thrusting a certificate of disability into his face. The street hawker of lottery tickets, with 50 mark bills stuck around hat band and belt, and a sign announcing the "security" to be gained from the lottery. Lapses of taste: barbed wire has been strung up to keep pedestrians from crossing medians and to protect flowerbeds. One would have thought, somehow...
...mile range and cruises at 550 m.p.h. Lockheed's $2,000,000 JetStar stresses low operating costs, as does North American Rockwell's Sabre 75A ($1.8 million). Beechcraft does not produce its own jet, but markets the comfortable British Beechcraft Hawker BH-125 600, which sells for $592,000. As for Grumman, it sold 22 Gulfstreams in 1972, compared with twelve in 1971. And, says a happily harried Grumman vice president, Jack Rettaliata, "We don't see any let down ahead...
...they told Yugoslav officials, the three prisoners were to be exchanged for the hostages. But if the skyjackers would not agree to the terms, the prisoners were to be returned to West Germany. In preparation for the deal, Lufthansa Board Chairman Herbert Culmann and the three prisoners boarded a Hawker Siddeley executive jet, which was to remain in West German airspace until the terrorists agreed to a direct swap...
...they've got it set in their heads that their three comrades come on board my plane without anybody being released?" Aloft over West Germany, Lufthansa's Culmann finally decided that the situation represented a "supra-legal emergency." Without consulting Bonn, he ordered the pilot of the Hawker Siddeley to fly to Zagreb and agreed to make the exchange on Arab terms. Moments after his plane touched down, the terrorists allowed Claussen to land the 727; less than a minute's fuel remained in the plane's tanks. On the ground, the Arabs were adamant that...
Lear and a fellow hawker named Ed Simmons decided that the street they really wanted to work was comedy writing. It was 1949; the infant medium of television was ravenous for material; the new team needed just one break in order to kiss baby pictures goodbye -and Lear typically made it for them. Posing as a New York Times reporter, he got Danny Thomas' phone number from an agent. He called Thomas and offered him a piece of material for a benefit engagement that night at Ciro's in Hollywood. "How long will it run?" asked Thomas...