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...more symbolism than he should have been made to carry. His flight, for all its significance, was in some ways merely a handsome stunt. It was also one of the first great media events of the century. Frenchman Raymond Orteig had offered $25,000 for the first nonstop flight between New York and France.* Through the winter and early spring of 1927, the newspapers - then in one of the most aggressively competitive eras of American journalism - had promoted the race among Admiral Richard Byrd, the polar explorer, and others. In April, Noel Davis and Stanton Wooster were killed during...
With the downfall of Yitzhak Rabin and the emergence of Shimon Peres as leader of the Labor Party, Israeli citizens have been deprived of their favorite blood sport: the ferocious, nonstop struggle for power and prestige between their Premier and their Defense Minister. For the past three years virtually every Israeli domestic, foreign and military policy issue has engaged the two contestants in loud public attacks and counterattacks, which occasionally subside into sotto voce snarling and low-key muttering...
...interstate route, get an export license or win permission to market a drug, could be subject to ACA'S watchful eye. So too would companies that have to meet Government safety standards for their products. Complains General Foods Chairman James Ferguson, an outspoken critic: "The cost of virtually nonstop litigation would increase enormously the expense of running any business and the price of goods to the consumer, while the costs on the Government side would raise his taxes as well...
...superstars of rock music inhabit a looking-glass world made up of equal parts of glamour and innocence-plus roistering, perpetual motion. For this week's cover story, Los Angeles Correspondent Jean Vallely plunged through the looking glass to spend eight nonstop days with Superstar Linda Ronstadt. She trailed the singer from Washington, D.C., to New York City, where she shared her hotel suite, and then back to the West Coast to visit the star on home ground in her Malibu beach house. "Rock stars don't know what the sun looks like," says Vallely, who would stay...
...Nonstop Talker. An intense, eager, nonstop talker, Zarem is insecure enough to see an analyst three times a week. If he meets someone he knows after a session he may stop him on the street to rehash it. His office is on Fifth Avenue, but his favorite headquarters is Elaine's Restaurant, Manhattan's top celebrity hangout. He often winds up his 15-hour days-usually early in the morning-at his fourth-floor walk-up bachelor's pad on Manhattan's East Side with a diet cola and a Stouffer's short-ribs...