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...hour, until four armored police vehicles arrived. That prompted a terrorist to toss a grenade into one helicopter, and another to shoot the hostages in the other helicopter. Three Black September operatives survived; Germany freed them nearly two months later for the release of passengers on a hijacked Lufthansa jet...
...gray and shaped like an upside-down spoon with wings. The drone is made of lightweight composite plastic and metal and has a tiny, propeller-driven engine--adapted from a snowmobile's--with a decidedly unimpressive top speed of only 150 m.p.h. Rogers' previous craft, the supersonic F-15 jet fighter, can fly up to 900 m.p.h...
...PLACE IN THE SUN SLIM AARONS For decades Aarons was a society photographer for magazines like LIFE, Holiday and Town & Country. He made the jet set look fetching wherever it landed, from Palm Springs to Acapulco. (That's French soprano Lily Pons, above, at Cap Ferrat, France.) Aarons didn't mean to satirize those scrumptious creatures, their opulence or their strangely bewitching narcissism. All the same, it's hard to turn the pages of this book, brimming with rich folk in full regalia--with their silky red slip-ons, their bikinis and their short shorts--and not laugh out loud...
What would you do if you had $15,000: Buy a pink jet...
Indeed, he is known for diamond dealing on the highest level, jumping on his private jet to sell stones to heads of state and, once, jetting off to his yacht in the Mediterranean with $150 million worth of stones in his pocket to rendezvous with a U.S. businessman on a less traveled stretch of sea between Italy and France. Of course, he sold all three of the famous stones he was carrying that...