Word: lindbergh
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...promptly recorded for posterity that Larry Newman proved to be the lucky transatlantic balloonist who got to sleep in the Lindbergh bed at the American embassy in Paris. But it's disappointing that the press did not report what Newman wore on the occasion...
...flight 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...
...crowd at Miserey, the Americans were whisked to Paris, where they were lionized by French officials ("a new bridge between America and France") and invited to spend the night at the American ambassador's residence. Newman won the toss and got to sleep in the same bed that Lindbergh had used after his flight...
...afternoon, a red, white and blue Texas International Airlines DC-9 took off from Mexico City carrying the first group of 61 transfers. Three hours later, when the pilot announced the jet was passing over the border, the cabin erupted with cheering and sobbing. At San Diego's Lindbergh Field, scores of jubilant and tearful relatives, many waving "Welcome Home" signs, shouted prisoners' names as the transfers were whisked aboard a bus. Said Robin Worthington, 31, of San Francisco at a brief press conference: "It was a long battle, but we're home...
...white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might. Over a weekend and a day, American women had reached some kind of watershed in their own history, and in that of the nation...