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...brothers' first attempt at controlled powered flight belongs in history's blooper file. Orville's timepiece read 3 1/2 sec. when the Flyer reared and bounced into a hill. Wilbur had used too much rudder and stalled 15 ft. over the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Orville's turn came three days later, Dec. 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m. He took the clattering rig to an altitude of 10 ft. and traveled through the air for about 40 yds. before coming down hard enough to crack a skid...
Holmes a Court, 49, a soft-spoken lawyer who is reputedly Australia's wealthiest citizen, controls worldwide industrial and media properties through his holding company, Bell Group (1986 revenues: $1.5 billion). From that base, he has launched sallies against Broken Hill Proprietary, a huge Australian steel, oil and gas producer, and other big firms. A few months ago he engaged in a bidding war with Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch over the Herald and Weekly Times, Australia's largest media group. Last August Holmes a Court disclosed that he was seeking a 15% stake in USX, the steel giant. As takeover...
Although President Reagan and other top officials have vowed to proceed with the plan to allow Kuwaiti tankers to change their registry, the move has drawn criticism on Capitol Hill in the wake of the May 16 attack on the frigate USS Stark...
...Music Man, which just opened, the Chinese took special pains to re-create the show-biz pomp and color of the original 1957 production, though the cultural leap did take some effort from both sides of the footlights. Chinese Opera Star Wang Xingna confesses that before playing Harold Hill he disliked American musicals. "Now I find they have merits," allows Wang. "I think the audience will like them, just as they like pop songs." Fine. But how does "P and that stands for pool" sound in Mandarin...
...world looking on, she wed the playboy Aly Khan, with whom she had her second daughter Yasmin. The match lasted only two years, but she remembered him fondly: "The world was magical when you were with him." There were two more marriages (to Crooner Dick Haymes and Producer James Hill), neither happy. "They fell in love with Gilda and woke up with me," was her rueful commentary...