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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Getting 100 people to hold hands for a few seconds hardly seems an overwhelming challenge; after all, Hands Across America assembled nearly 5 million for 15 min. But when they are free falling from three miles up, it is a world's record. Over the Fourth of July weekend Guy Manos and Tom Piras of Deland, Fla., headed a group of sky diving aficionados who gathered in Muskogee, Okla., to have a go at breaking their 1983 record of 72 parachutists in cluster formation. Even though 24 previous attempts had ended in failure, hopes were high as the sky divers...
...ocean liner United States broke the transatlantic speed record previously held by Britain's Queen Mary. Time: 3 days 10 hr. 40 min. Last week a 72-ft. racing craft owned and captained by British Airline and Record Magnate Richard Branson clipped 2 hr. 9 min. off the record, earning the "blue riband" traditionally awarded for top speed, and, presumably, the Hales Trophy glorifying it. But the ocean-liner fraternity cried foul. The curator of the U.S. Merchant Marine Museum, where the trophy is housed, refused to yield it to "a toy boat," as he called Branson's $2.3 / million...
Confucius wrote that "truly great music is always simple in movement." Which may explain why Andy Williams is the hottest Western vocalist in China. Or maybe it's because Williams crooned the sound track to Dancing on Ice, a 15-min. skating documentary that has been shown again and again and then several times more on Chinese TV. Ever since, people have been downright bullish in China's shops about his Love Story and other ancient chestnuts. It is not just ideogrammatic titles like Moon River that strike familiar chords in Chinese hearts. "His voice and style more closely resemble...
...visitors behave here, even when waiting in line 45 min. for a Frontierland hot dog. All the employees smile, even the teenagers in French Foreign Legion uniforms sweeping up cigarette butts in front of the imitation- Aztec Mexican pavilion. (Average "life-span" of a piece of street trash before being removed: 4 min.) During the Magic Kingdom's afternoon parade of Disney characters, a sanitation man in old-fashioned vest and black pants materializes to scoop up some horse dung. When the crowd cheers him, he doffs his hat and salutes...
...learn the truth about us." On each occasion, Semyonov insists, Bonner's public appearances were arranged for her by others. She was denied an audience with President Reagan, possibly because the Administration did not want to insult Gorbachev. Instead, National Security Adviser John Poindexter received her for a 30-min. closed-door meeting. Bonner apparently hopes to bring international pressure on the Kremlin to allow her and Sakharov to return to Moscow or leave the U.S.S.R. Says Semyonov: "She believes that whether she did or did not speak out, the Soviet authorities would do what they wanted...