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...Pavarotti, reaching a top note brings on a mystical feeling such as a champion high-jumper might experience. "That second when you clear the bar in mid-air you lose consciousness," he says. "It is something physical, animal, beyond control. A moment later you are back on the ground and in full control." The haunting, universal fear that some day he will jump and miss?"that I shall open my mouth and no sound will come out" ?gives Pavarotti the whim-whams before every performance. In 1972 he made a transatlantic call to Beverly Sills about their upcoming appearance...
...worst previous U.S. airplane disaster occurred in 1960 when 134 people were killed in a mid-air collision over New York City...
...four major airfields the Israelis currently have in the Sinai (see map), Eitam and Etzion are regarded as vital to their national defense. From Etzion, which is located in an area with few flat spaces, Israeli jets can patrol not only the Strait of Tiran but also (with mid-air refueling) Bab el Mandeb at the southern end of the Red Sea. Squadrons at Eitam can guard the southern coast of the Mediterranean and the Sinai as far as the Suez Canal...
...were actually fired. Instead, 1,900 umpires-sporting white armbands and riding in Jeeps flying white pennants-clambered about the battlefield. Over field radios, commanders were told "You're dead," while "killed" vehicles were marked with yellow flags. There were, however, real casualties; in ground accidents and one mid-air collision, two American servicemen and six German civilians were killed...
Inevitably, there have been accidents in the event's 25-year history. Six people have been killed, including one last week -Burton Bodven, 33, of Franksville, Wis., who died after another plane shirred off the tail of his craft in a mid-air collision. Yet all in all, home-built wings of man have had a relatively good safety record. According to Government estimates, home-built planes that have been legally certified as airworthy have an annual accident rate of 3% per active aircraft-the same as general aviation factory-built planes...