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...keep tabs on his burgeoning realm, Lloyd Webber is a man in almost perpetual motion. During the year between the London and New York openings of Phantom, he has circled the globe in his leased Hawker Siddeley 125 jet, making arrangements for new productions and spot-checking the quality level of old ones. "I have been all over the world until I hardly know what time of day it is," he says. It doesn't matter: the sun never sets on this new British empire...
...sprawling apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park; a house on Montego Bay in Jamaica; a working ranch with 1,500 head of cattle near Telluride, Colo.; and an oceanfront house at the tip of Long Island. The family commutes over the long hauls in a nine- passenger Hawker Siddeley jet and covers shorter distances in chartered helicopters. Lauren can be seen gliding through Manhattan in a limousine with the initials RL on the door, but he prefers to pilot his chromeless 1979 Porsche Turbo Carrera, which is custom-finished entirely in black...
Karen Janszen, 34, had never flown in a small aircraft. She was therefore apprehensive last May 17 as she boarded the eight-seat Hawker Siddeley jet of AMF, the sports-equipment and industrial-technology manufacturer, for a trip from Houston to Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. Two years ago, Janszen underwent surgery in Methodist Hospital to remove a malignant brain tumor, and she was returning from Houston after chemotherapy treatments. AMF Chairman W. Thomas York, who was in Houston for business meetings, was giving her a free lift on the company plane. The in-flight accommodations delighted Janszen...
...week began, Muslim Druze militiamen shattered the 2,000-man Fourth Brigade, long touted as among the best fighting units in the Lebanese Army, in an 18-hour battle and then poured out of the Chouf Mountains onto the flat coastal strip. Bombing and strafing runs by two subsonic Hawker Hunter jet fighters, part of Gemayel's tiny air force, could not stop the Druze even momentarily. After linking up at Khalde with their allies, the Amal militia of Lebanon's dominant Shi'ite Muslim sect, the Druze drove the Fourth Brigade 3½ miles south...
...Jade Tiger maneuvers will probably have the U.S. Air Force landing large transports at Thamarit, which has one of the longest runways in the world, and U.S. Navy fighters from aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean may practice missions in support of the Omani air force's Hawker Hunter and Jaguar fighter-bombers based at Thamarit. But this time with zero news coverage...