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What Col. Lindbergh should have said is, "We must be as impersonal as the professional mourner, who doesn't lament the seriousness of the plague, or the number of fatalities, as long as it helps his own business...
There are individual dreams and collective dreams. Charles Lindbergh's trajectory across the Atlantic in 1927 was a vivid feat of individualism. He became one of the last romantic heroes. He brilliantly employed the technology of flight in its primitive stage, before technology seemed to overwhelm the individual. If the American space program produced a triumph of teamwork in an age when hundreds of human brains were needed to collaborate, like microchips, in the mastery of so much detail, Lindbergh's flight represented a peculiarly, almost wistfully, American way of doing things. It was a lonely achievement...
...birth of Israel was an utterly different sort of achievement. If Lindbergh was the individualist outrider of a new age, the idea of Israel was a collective vision. It arose from an ancient tribal aspiration, the hope of an ingathering after the long centuries of the Diaspora...
...slimy bottom contained news, that the silent heavens above pulsed with news-news that would set thousands of printing presses in motion, news that would make sirens scream in every U. S. city, news that would cause housewives to run out into backyards and shout to their children: "Lindbergh is in Paris...
Late one evening last week Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh studied weather reports and decided that the elements were propitious for a flight from New York to Paris. He took a two-hour sleep, then busied himself with final preparations at Roosevelt Field, L. I. Four sandwiches, two canteens of water and emergency army rations, along with 451 gallons of gasoline were put into his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. "When I enter the cockpit," said he, "it's like going into the death chamber. When I step out at Paris it will be like getting a pardon from...