Word: lindberghs
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...touched down smoothly at Le Bourget airport, and the smiling pilot hopped off the two pillows that had elevated him high enough to peer out the plane's window. He turned down a glass of champagne and took a Coke instead. Landing at the same field where Charles Lindbergh ended his solo flight in 1927, U.S. Aviator Christopher Lee Marshall, all of eleven years old, had just become the youngest pilot to fly across the Atlantic...
During spring training, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth quietly tried to talk to Martin about his drinking. But alcohol and baseball have always had a charmed association. Beer is practically a synonym for the sport. Hockey scrapes Drunken Driver Pelle Lindbergh off the highway, while basketball and football shake their heads at Chris Mullin and Tommy Kramer. But baseball literally cheers for hangovers. In Mel Allen's day at the Yankee mike, home runs were "Ballantine blasts." Now the St. Louis Cardinals do their rallying to the Budweiser jingle played incessantly on the Busch Stadium organ...
...down men and women who have known Gorbachev personally. Correspondent John Kohan embarked on a similar search in the Soviet Union, visiting Stavropol, where Gorbachev began his political career. The result is a rare glimpse into the private life of an ostensibly public man. Since 1927, when Aviator Charles Lindbergh became TIME's first Man of the Year, that honor has by definition gone to the person who has most influenced the year's events, for good or ill. Gorbachev certainly meets the test. He is also the first Man of the Year whose cover portrait was taken from...
Harvard can skate the way Charles Lindbergh could fly. Unlike Lucky Lindy, who preferred international travel, the Crimson likes to fly right at home...
...exhibit details the chronology of these pieces. One puzzle, made in the image of the Atlantic Ocean, challenges players to put the "planes" of Lindbergh, Byrd, and Chamberlain into "hangars" located on the other side of the ocean. The puzzle pays tribute to the real-life race as to which of the three pilots would cross the Atlantic first...