Word: lindberghism
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...sense it was a stunt, a daredevil adventure that no man who was concerned about his safety and his future should have attempted. But Charles Lindbergh's 1927 pioneering solo flight across the Atlantic in a single-engine plane that cruised at less than 100 m.p.h. was surely the most glorious stunt of the century-one of those pristinely pure but magnificently eloquent gestures that awaken people everywhere to life's boundless potential. For most of his life Lindbergh was looked upon as an argonaut of the air age, a Ulysses from Minnesota. When he died of cancer...
Some fisheries experts are putting great faith in aquaculture, or sea farming. In Washington, Biologist Jon Lindbergh, son of the aviator, is pioneering in the farming of salmon. After the fish come home to spawn, their eggs are collected and hatched in incubators. The fry are then raised until they are large enough to be kept in offshore pens for harvesting. On St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Lamont-Doherty scientists have successfully grown oysters, clams and scallops in artificial ponds, using nutrient-rich water piped in from the depths of the Caribbean...
...noted in my book Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case, in 1933, when a wave of kidnapings followed the abduction of the Lindbergh baby, many wealthy Americans requested Lloyd's to provide them with a hedge against possible abductions by introducing kidnap-insurance policies, and Lloyd's obliged them. The maximum protection Lloyd's offered an adult at that time was $100,000; the maximum for a child was the sum paid for the Lindbergh baby, recovered dead: $50,000. Thus kidnap insurance was not "all but unheard of a few years...
...with her opulent childhood (Bring Me a Unicorn, 1972) as daughter of Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow, and Ambassador to Mexico. The second volume was last year's bestselling account of the tragic kidnaping of her son (Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead). This third volume begins when the Lindberghs were still hounded by reporters, and ends when they decided to escape it all and find a new life in England. The result is short on drama, but it rises to savage yet poignant moments. On a rare trip on a New York subway, Anne Lindbergh records: "Horrible horrible-looking...
...book also reveals the author as a person of courage in tragic and trying circumstances. She refers to Lindbergh as "Charles" or as "C." Still, an attentive reader learns a good deal about one of the enduring marital relationships of the century. There came a moment when, almost four years after the kidnaping, a earful of news photographers forced the limousine taking 3-year-old Jon home from school to the curb, then flashed bulbs into his terrified face. It was only a month after Anne had taken an apartment in New York. But Lindbergh abruptly decided they must quit...