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Hollywood was a community in which people played together and fought together but always showed up at dawn to make movies together. Commuting by jet from Los Angeles to New York was 20 years away, and only between pictures did the moviemakers and stars leave town. Travel was still a time-consuming, albeit luxurious, event: several days on the Super Chief and 20th Century Limited to New York, then on to Europe aboard the Normandie or Queen Mary. Pan American did not introduce the first commercial flights to Europe until June 1939. But even then, its majestic Boeing flying boats...
...Flying Nun was fantasy, but in Los Angeles the airborne Archbishop is for real. To enable Roman Catholic Archbishop Roger Mahony to get around his three-county, 8,700-sq.-mi. archdiocese, anonymous businessmen have given him a $400,000 jet-powered helicopter. Mahony is upgrading his pilot's license so he can fly it solo. Zinging along at 160 m.p.h., he can cut the travel time to the seminary at Camarillo to 15 minutes; by car it took up to 2 1/2 hours. Archdiocesan spokesmen insist the money has not been diverted from other purposes: the contributors are donating...
...pressurized for high-altitude flight and then depressurized during descent. This places stress on the airframe; over time, repeated expansion and contraction weaken the plane. Like a balloon that has been inflated too many times, the plane's skin becomes vulnerable to tearing. But while the Flight 811 jet has been in service for 19 years and is one of the oldest in United's fleet, it had racked up only 15,021 cycles, considered middle-aged for a 747 but not dangerous...
...Along the way, say his critics, the Chairman spent tribal funds profusely. He reportedly hired a public relations firm for $1.5 million. He had his office in Window Rock, Ariz., remodeled for $600,000, of which $4,800 alone went to pay for carved office doors. He chartered a jet for more than $18,000 to take him and his family to the 1988 Orange Bowl...
...souped-up cars against one another for cash, trophies and recognition. Last summer in Laredo, Texas, Tom Fichter of Houston broke the world's record when his $27,000 system pounded out Flashdance . . . What a Feeling at 154.7 decibels, more than twice as loud as the sound of a jet taking...