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Continental Airlines Chairman Alvin Lindbergh Feldman, 53, worked for several hours with an aide Sunday, Aug. 9, in his office at the Los Angeles International Airport. The two men were preparing a press release to be published the next day announcing that nine banks had pulled out of a plan aimed at stopping a Texas International Airlines takeover of the company. The banks had changed their minds about making a $185 million loan to a group of about 11,000 employees who wanted to buy controlling interest in their ailing company. Without the loans, the takeover seemed inevitable. After finishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Office Tragedy | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...course. Tom himself had yet to achieve hero status. One could imagine even the young inventor going home to read Tarzan, or, as the times changed, sitting in a theater to watch Sam Spade or Philip Marlow or Humphrey Bogart. Or watching newsreels of Lindbergh. Even Tom would respond to that hierarchy. It may have been an unprecedented spree of hyperbole, but the newspapers called Lindbergh's landing "The biggest news story since the crucifixion of Christ." Well, obviously, it wasn't the biggest story since Roman times--but it might have been the biggest news story. News, after...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Careening Classic | 6/26/1981 | See Source »

...space," exulted veteran Astronaut Deke Slayton, boss of orbital flight-test crews, referring to the sturdy Douglas aircraft that opened new routes for commercial aviation in the mid-1930s. Columbia's maiden space voyage brought to mind the first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, Lindbergh's lone-eagle crossing of the Atlantic, even the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, which would turn a land of remote frontiers into a nation. Princeton's prophet of space colonization, Physicist Gerard O'Neill, saw the flight as a first step toward establishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Touchdown, Columbia! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...suit Trippe, so he abandoned air transportation within the U.S. and formed Pan American. The new company concentrated on international routes; its earliest Key West to Havana run carried just eight passengers in trimotor Fokkers. The airline quickly expanded its routes throughout Latin America and the Pacific. Charles A. Lindbergh, fresh from his solo flight across the Atlantic, soon became a key Pan Am adviser. "Lindbergh," Trippe always maintained, "was our greatest pilot and navigator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sky Rider | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...golden initials intermingled in a floral pattern dates back to 1896. Georges Vuitton, son of the firm's founder, created the design to make the bags difficult for counterfeiters to copy. Over the years, the distinctive canvas fabric became a favorite of the rich and renowned, including Charles Lindbergh, Rose Kennedy and Lauren Bacall. Marlene Dietrich once filled an entire limousine with 23 Vuitton cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discreet Chic | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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