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TIME's Man of the Year tradition began rather casually during a slow week at the end of 1927 when the magazine's editors didn't know whom to put on the cover. Recalling that they had shortchanged Lindbergh after he made the first solo crossing of the Atlantic earlier that year, they named him Man of the Year. The idea caught on, and among Lindy's successors have been such men as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and such women as Wallis Simpson and Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
...both public praise and scientific acclaim for designing the human-powered flying machines known as the Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, contends that the true measure of a project's value is not whether it produces hard data but whether it provokes the human mind. "Who can say Lindbergh's flight was scientifically important?" he asks. "There was no new land discovered, and if you asked at the time, people might have said the development of the eggbeater was of more value. But the flight ended up stimulating aviation." As for the trip to the moon, "all we really...
Every industrial revolution starts with a great notion. In the Smithsonian Institution, resting only a short stroll away from Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, is a newer icon of American ingenuity: Stumpjumper, the first mountain bike. A crossbreed of rugged utility and European racing technology, the Stumpjumper scurried where 10-speeds would have crumpled: down mountain slopes, across fields and over city curbs. The chunky two-wheeler, manufactured by Californian Michael Sinyard in 1981, has helped transform the % U.S. bicycle industry from a sleepy business to a $3.5 billion family-sport industry as millions of Americans mount...
...Iranian leadership's unease over the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia is not assuaged by the heritage of Operation Desert Shield's commander, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The general's father, also named H. Norman, won fame for investigating the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, but some Iranians remember him for another accomplishment: the elder Schwarzkopf, with bags of cash and the blessings of CIA Director Allen Dulles, helped organize the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mossadegh that led to the ascendancy of the Shah...
...stories were based on what the narrator, H. Norman Schwarzkopf, called "authentic case histories." He was the real thing himself -- a West Point grad who had been superintendent of the New Jersey state police and an investigator in the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby...