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Baker does his own research at home in Leesburg, Virginia, and will journey to Boston several times a year to tape the introductions. The programs imported for Masterpiece Theatre run in Britain with no introduction; the notion of a host is American. "We like to be told what's coming," says Baker. "It reassures us." An advance look at his first efforts reveals that the onscreen Baker is indeed reassuring -- an intelligent, amiable presence, with a healthy respect for the camera. "You have to do your damnedest to be yourself," he says. "It's hard, like having your picture taken...
Even though the economy is limping along, pilot-training schools are flying high. One California flight-school administrator, noting a surge in applications, believes that "the success of the air war in the Middle East has caught people's imaginations." Jim Haynes, president of Janelle Aviation in Leesburg, Va., says his number of applicants has quadrupled since the war. Remember when the Watergate investigation sent thousands of young Americans to journalism school...
...former computer operator and onetime Marxist who moved to the far right in the mid-1970s, LaRouche has been living in luxury on an estate near Leesburg, Va., where heavily armed guards watch for would-be assassins. His followers set up tables in airports to solicit contributions and sell books and magazines whose extreme views are disguised by innocuous titles like Executive Intelligence Review. Believing that LaRouche's goals justified his means, others borrowed millions from supporters, knowing the money would never be returned. Judge Bryan refused to grant LaRouche bail pending appeal, and dispatched him to an Alexandria jail...
This potentially scary scene occurred not just once last week but twice. At 9:34 a.m. on Tuesday, a primary computer at the control center at Leesburg, Va., which handles flights in the greater Washington area, lost electrical power for 30 seconds. Another brief outage, lasting 1 minute 40 seconds, occurred at 9:08 that night in the New England control center at Nashua, N.H. Both operations quickly switched to their emergency backup systems, and officials at the Federal Aviation Administration maintain that safety was not seriously compromised. But the disruptions delayed flights along the busy East Coast corridor...
...check of computer operations at the agency's 22 control centers in the U.S. What apparently happened at Nashua was that a technician performing routine maintenance on the electrical system accidentally cut off its power. The FAA has not yet determined what caused the electrical problem in Leesburg...