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Edwards is a nonsmoking teetotaler, but he delights in shouting, "Laissez les bons temps rouler!" (Let the good times roll). To pay off a $4.4 million campaign debt after his last election, he and some 600 of his supporters, many paying $10,000 a head, boarded two jumbo jets loaded with champagne and flew off on a one-week tour of Paris and Monte Carlo. Edwards happily posed with beautiful women and rolled high at the gaming tables, winning...
Ming, who has 30 years' piloting experience, said that the engines regained power "miraculously" somewhere about 11,000 feet above the Pacific--or about 44 seconds before the plane would have crashed. The jumbo jet leveled itself, and in a voice one traveler described as "pretty shaky," Ming asked passengers to secure their seat belts. An hour later, the 747 made an emergency landing at San Francisco International airport, on wheels that were intact despite the damage to the jet's underbelly. On touchdown, Ming received a round of heartfelt applause; he in turn apologized for any "inconvenience and discomfort...
Once the dam cracked, it crumbled, and the flood was on. It became an everyday event for one or two lead banks in the U.S. or Western Europe to round up dozens of partners by telephone to put together so-called jumbo syndicates for loans to developing countries. Some bankers were so afraid of missing out that during lunch hours they even empowered their secretaries to promise $5 million or $10 million as part of any billion-dollar loan package for Brazil or Mexico. To seal and celebrate big deals, bankers staged signing ceremonies, complete with champagne and caviar...
Against Tufts, Kenworthy kept gunning for the Jumbo net even after the game got out of hand and ended up with four goals in the 7-1 triumph...
...rally at a recent Moose Lodge meeting in Durham, N.C., Helms recalled how in 1983 he narrowly missed being on Korean Airlines Flight 007. Helms said he chose to attend a Texas fund-raising event thrown by Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry, and therefore cancelled his booking on the jumbo jet that was shot down by the Soviet Union...