Word: lynn
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Still as trim and erect as he was in his days as a Marine test pilot, J. Lynn Helms, 56, the new Federal Aviation Administrator, climbed aboard a little two-engine Cessna, throttled down the runway at Washington National Airport and gave chase to a Boeing 727. He made six breathtakingly close passes at the larger aircraft, almost as if he were knocking MiGs out of the skies over Korea. Last week, several days after that acrobatic performance, Helms disclosed what he had decided as a result of the flight. By 1984, he announced, a new electronic warning system would...
...Lynn Kinikin...
Everyone agrees that the stalled construction does not signal a public policy Armageddon, but several professors, especially those dealing with the merger of the MPP and the CRP, are worried about how the school will house the students and faculty from the new program. Laurence E. Lynn, professor of Public Policy and chairman of the faculty committee hammering out details of the merger, refuses to even speculate about what will happen should the building not be finished by 1983; "I wish the building existed now. For every month delay, the strain gets worse," he says...
NAKED AT THE FEAST by Lynn Haney Dodd, Mead; 338 pages...
Josephine Baker parlayed that talent into a strange career. As Biographer Lynn Haney recounts, Baker badgered her way onto Broadway when she was 16, but it was in Paris three years later that she found true recognition. As in a '30s melodrama, Baker's professional life roared on while the person behind the spangles was racked with insecurity. The crucial difference between Baker and her Hollywood contemporaries was that the star was black, and consequently was barred from many roles in her native land...