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Blessing's creative gem is the new owner, Mr. Thompson (Michael Kevin), who flies his own Learjet. Thompson is a cross between the Yankees' George Steinbrenner arid a computerized barracuda. He tells the warriors" and players he that "you wants "a can't be franchise perfect of without a perfect attitude." All the actors at Louisville are very nearly perfect, and this year they had to be. - - By T.E. Kalem
...back of the van, Biggs was drugged, thrown into a canvas sack and driven to Rio's Santos Dumont Airport, where he was dumped into the luggage compartment of a rented Learjet. He was then flown 1,529 miles to the northeastern Brazilian city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon, and hustled aboard the How Can I II, a luxury yacht chartered in Antigua two weeks earlier. His abductors ordered the two-man charter crew to set a course back toward the Caribbean...
...life; Ray--who in his third decade is divorced and remarried to a woman who is perfect, except he hates her, except he loves another woman named Sister, except she is murdered on the verge of rock'n'roll stardom in a shack in Tuscaloosa; Ray--who steals a Learjet and crashes it into the Toronto woods; Ray, the unfaithful, who needs to make love twice a day, who fantasizes about naked women in high-heeled shoes, who delivers papers on the effects of Valium but can think of little but the erotic blue veins of his nurse's feet...
Only a few months ago, John Connally shuttled between his campaign stops and his enormously successful fund-raising events in the splendor of a chartered Learjet. In his final days, Connally was hopping around the South in a Fairchild F27. It was a castoff from George Bush's Iowa days, the nickname "Asterisk One" only recently scratched off the fuselage...
...Canadian and American agencies are launching 34 atmospheric rockets to look for other surprises. The U.S. Navy, for example, wants to learn how electrical changes in the ionosphere, some apparently connected to fluctuations in solar radiation, disrupt radio contact between ground stations and satellites. In a NASA-owned Learjet, Physicist T. Allan Clark of the University of Calgary will study the sun's eruptions, seeking links between this activity and terrestrial climate...