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Holmes doesn't romanticize the Romantics. The first great age of ballooning, which began so amusingly in the skies above Paris, rapidly declined into mere showmanship. (The flamboyant Italian aerialist Vincent Lunardi once proposed the following toast: "I give you me, Lunardi - whom all the ladies love!") From there it descended into tragedy and defeat. At one of Lunardi's public launches, a young man got tangled up in some of the balloon's ropes, was dragged aloft, then fell to his death. Lunardi died in poverty, and the dauntless Pilâtre was killed while attempting to cross the English...
...pressure." That would give Poles double cause for a feast of thanksgiving. Turbulence Over Italy Alitalia management and unions made little progress on a layoff-heavy deal to save the Italian flag carrier as a Sept. 15 deadline neared. "This is the last chance," warned Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi. Unions responded with threats of strikes, while rival Ryanair increased pressure by adding five new Italian routes...
Every Monday while I wait for the I-AA College Football Top 25 polls to be released by ESPN and The Sports Network, the words of ESPN.com’s Joe Lunardi echo through my head...
...sons was quoted in the Rome-based daily La Repubblica as saying his father probably committed suicide because of mounting financial problems. An experienced flyer, Fasulo was "very discreet and mysterious about anything related to his plane," a fellow Locarno pilot told Swiss television. Italian Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi ordered checks on Fasulo's health record and financial situation. "There are reasons to believe that something strange happened here ... The plane did everything wrong from beginning to end," Lunardi told reporters. "If this accident had happened before Sept. 11 one might just have talked about destiny, but seeing...
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