Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flight of the Spirit of St. Louis and Friendship 7" details the historic flights of Charles Lindbergh and John Glenn...
...Viet Nam. Now with a cast of many thousands or millions, each leader heads only a segment, and decision is often a synthesis of the opinions of many herolings. Where there are too many heroes, there may be none in the end, for the essence of heroism is singularity. Lindbergh is perhaps the greatest of all American heroes, a machine-borne Icarus who did not fall. The astronauts are his heirs and yet they are already submerged in team heroism. First there was Alan Shepard, who was succeeded by the engaging John Glenn, and then Edward White was the first...
Died. William J. Allen, 76, New Jersey truck driver whose discovery in May 1932 of the decomposed body of 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. in a shallow grave near Hopewell, N.J., ended a 72-day search for the kidnaped child and catapulted the Negro worker into brief but unfortunate fame, landing him as a freak in a Coney Island exhibit until public pressure forced New Jersey Governor A. Harry Moore to find him state employment and give him a $5,000 reward; of heart disease; in Trenton...
Died. Harold M. Bixby, 75, aviation pioneer and vice president of Pan American World Airways from 1938 to 1949, who as president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce in 1927 was a key backer of Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight and named Lindy's single-engined monoplane The Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart attack; in Captiva Island...
Died. Frederick H. Rohr, 69, founder and chairman of Rohr Corp., leading U.S. aircraft subcontractor, a mechanic who built and installed all the metalwork on Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, in 1940 formed a company that today grosses $128 million a year making parts for jet aircraft; following a stroke; in San Diego, Calif...