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...used to ride around with my grandfather in a horse and buggy," remembers Katherine Buffett, 93, of her childhood on a Nebraska farm. "Sometimes he would let me drive the horse myself." These days, when Mrs. Buffett hunkers down in her Hawker 1000 jet, the pilot does not offer her the reins. But he always gets her back home to Omaha on time...
...loot the stalls. Two boys approach a seller from the right, two from the left, and they begin to argue. While the seller is distracted, a fifth boy grabs a jar of jam or milk. Sometimes, when the hunger is bad, the boys will simply run up to a hawker, grab a handful of food and run. And sometimes they are caught. "The cops know we're only trying to survive, and they let us go," says Alen Berglerovic, the best thief in the school. "What can they do to us? We already live in a prison...
...Quinn sets out to expose a mill owner who is polluting the town's drinking water with mercury. In another, she fights with a bank officer who won't lend her money because she's a single woman. Indians in Dr. Quinn are not hostile, just misunderstood; a hawker of phony patent medicines turns out to be a surgeon who grew disillusioned after witnessing battlefield carnage during the Civil War. Seymour, as the town's doctor, psychologist, police force and environmental chemist rolled into one, is the biggest anachronism of all. But a right purty...
...bins in the shop is cluttered with wing sections, striped fabric, fuselage stringers and bulkheads. No plane is immediately discernible in this jumble of disparate parts. You stare for a few seconds, and then the puzzle begins to come together -- a Hawker Hurricane. You drift back 49 years, and you can hear again the urgent voice of Edward R. Murrow coming over the old cathedral radio, describing the dogfights above him in the Battle of Britain. Hurricanes, though less glamorous than the legendary Spitfires, took more punishment and could be patched up and sent back into battle quicker...
...Beebe's enterprises grew, he reveled in the trappings. He acquired a nine-passenger Hawker Siddeley jet to carry business associates on golfing trips. He took clients duck hunting in the Louisiana marshes on a lavish two- story barge. In Shreveport, he built a $1 million home for his family, as well as a gleaming seven-story office building...