Word: lindbergh
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...above the multitude by acts of valor or virtue in times of war, crisis or national frustration. He may come from any walk of life, so long as he fills the nation's need to elevate its vision and swell its pride. From Washington to Sergeant York, from Lindbergh to MacArthur, the U.S. has had its share of heroes. But few have encountered the universal approval and adulation that last week engulfed Astronaut John Glenn...
...suggested another on Cape Canaveral. In Utah a move was under way to add another n to the half-completed Glen Canyon Dam. Glenn's space capsule, Friendship 7, was consigned to the Smithsonian Institution, to rest in hallowed glory beside the Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk biplane, Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and Wiley Post's Winnie...
Born. To Land Morrow Lindbergh, 24, third son of the aviator, and Susan Miller Lindbergh, 22: their first child, a daughter (whose arrival was so shrouded in secrecy -a family habit since the 1932 kidnaping of baby Charles Jr.-that early newspaper reports named her father as Land's older brother Jon) ; in Portland...
What I had seen of Nkrumah's reception looked something like the return of Charles Lindbergh after his Atlantic...
Kidnap, by George Waller. This meticulous account adds nothing to what is known about the Lindbergh kidnaping, but it summarizes well the bizarre, tragic events of crime and capture...