Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gave a lift to American spirits, providing an occasion for some pardonable national pride. The Albuquerque three had openly modeled their adventure after the famous airplane flight of Charles Lindbergh. Their craft was named the Double Eagle II, in honor of the Lone Eagle himself. They had wanted to land at Le Bourget, where Lucky Lindy had touched down on May 21, 1927. Though they fell 60 miles short of Le Bourget, they got a welcome reminiscent of the madness that greeted Lindbergh...
...airliner. Since ballooning on this scale is an expensive sport (they estimated the cost of their flight at $125,000), the fact that all are wealthy also helped. Newman is president of Electra Flyer Corp., one of America's largest hang-glider manufacturing companies. Abruzzo is a land developer who is also president of the Sandia Peak Ski Co. He and Anderson, the president of a uranium and copper mining company, have been ballooning together for years and have had their share of adventures-once clearing Pikes Peak by just...
...waved frantically and blew kisses to their husbands. By this time, the adventurers had tossed most of their ballast overboard, including the computers that had helped them navigate and much of the elaborate radio gear that they had used to keep in close touch with monitors back on land...
...literature -we don't move forward as a society." And Anderson described the lure of ballooning: "There are no books or music up there, but there is the whole world to see. It's completely silent, and you move with the clouds. When you come over land, you are standing on a balcony, and the world going by underneath you is such a magnificent sight that you have to force yourself to sleep when it is time...
Mostly the offspring of minorities and veteran left-wing activists, the children are schooled in such weighty issues as why farm workers should be unionized or why gas companies should not be allowed to construct a liquefied natural gas terminal on sacred Indian land along the California coast. Instead of sitting around the campfire singing "It's a Treat to Beat Your Feet on the Mississippi Mud," they learn union songs. Even traditional camp activities-sports, crafts, horseback riding-are pursued with a radical ideology in mind. "Swimming cannot be separated from the larger issues of society-the role...