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DIED. Maurice Be Monte, 87, French navigator and radio operator on the first nonstop Paris-to-New York transatlantic flight; in Paris. In 1930 Bellonte and Pilot Dieu-donne Costes reversed Charles Lindbergh's 1927 course in their crimson Bre-guet sesquiplane Question Mark. Taking off from Le Bourget airfield, they landed 37 hr. 18 min. and 3,600 miles later at Curtiss Field in Valley Stream...
...know what women have known all along: that males do not posses a monopoly on intelligence, strength, ambition, or desire. Clearly any man who hasn't gotten the message by now is either deaf, dumb, or decaying inside a donut shop somewhere, clutching a newspaper that reads, "LINDBERGH LANDS...
...Captain Lindbergh took the shortest route to Paris-the great circle-cutting across Long Island Sound, Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, skirting the coast of Newfoundland. He later told some of his sky adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began to see icebergs. . . . Within an hour it became dark. Then I struck clouds and decided to try to get over them. For a while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy...
...Captain Lindbergh then told how he crossed southwestern England and the Channel, followed the Seine to Paris, where he circled the city before recognizing the flying field at Le Bourget. Said he: "I had intended taxiing up to the front of the hangars, but no sooner had my plane touched the ground than a human sea swept toward it. I saw there was danger of killing people with my propeller and I quickly came to a stop...
...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...