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That, of course, made you kind of uneasy, listening to the man as you hid beneath your umbrella, seeking refuge from the off-and-on rain showers. He denounced the West, its loss of will and courage, the dangerous extent of its freedoms, its moral and spiritual decline. You huddled for cover...
...Georgia. And Captain Eddie Rickenbacker-Hannifin calls him "great, truly fearless and fascinatingly irascible"-who built Eastern Air Lines by flying DC-3's to remote East Coast outposts along what he called "Tobacco Road" routes. Alexander G. Hardy, former Senior Vice President of National Airlines, once hid overnight at Hannifin's apartment during an industry feud. Perhaps the most farsighted of them all was Juan Trippe, First Chief of Pan Am. Recalls Hannifin: "He kept telling me, 'We can make it easier for people to fly in bigger airplanes...
DIED. Henri Moureu, 79, French scientist who in World War II helped to frustrate Nazi efforts to make an atom bomb and later saved Paris from rocketing; in Pau, France. Assigned in 1940 to guard France's secret reserve of deuterium oxide (heavy water), Moureu hid it in a prison cell, then smuggled it to England. In 1944, when the Germans unveiled V-2 rockets, Moureu calculated their size and working principles. He also helped pin point launching sites targeted on Paris, which were destroyed by U.S. bombers...
...concerts more "entertaining," even going so far as to hire Diamond's manager. Perhaps that explains the liner photo chosen for Street Legal-a shot of Dylan in a white suit holding the microphone and casting a challenging look to the audience, with the guitar that he hid behind for so many years nowhere in sight...
When Konigsberg next met his boss, they hugged and kissed, and Konigsberg received an envelope stuffed with $15,000. Sinno also attended the friendly gathering. But within a few months, he became convinced that Provenzano was out to get him, too; he thereupon fled to the Midwest, where he hid under several aliases...