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Looking like a youngster's stick-and-rubber-band model, the oddly shaped plane headed slowly down the runway at the small airport near Cormeilles-en-Vexin, a village 25 miles northwest of Paris. It rose only about 50 ft. before sinking haplessly back to the ground. Five more times it tried to fly. On its seventh attempt it was able to get enough lift to make one complete turn before landing again. Finally, on the eighth, it began to rise, climbing in gently looping circles, like a hawk riding an updraft of warm air, to an altitude...
Unless the fire is extinguished, many of the 1,200 people who live in this small community 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia may be forced to move. Laments Joan Girolami, 38, who has lived there for 15 years: "The town is dying, and nobody's doing anything to save...
...addition to the Saudi aid to Syria, the essential elements of the deal Habib was trying to shape consisted of two basic parts. First, Lebanese army units would occupy Zahle and the strategic Sannin Ridge, several miles northwest of the city, so bitterly fought over by the Syrians and the Christian Phalangists. Initially, the Lebanese units would be under Syrian control, but in time command could shift to officers sympathetic to the Christians. Second, the Syrians would quietly remove their SA-6 missiles from Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, possibly after a formal request from the Lebanese government. Israel...
Howard Deichen has even brighter prospects. A '77 M.B.A. from Northwestern, he joined Northwest Industries at $25,000, was assigned to a planning and acquisitions group, helped arrange the purchase of a $200 million Coca-Cola bottling operation in Los Angeles, then became a special assistant to Northwest President Ben W. Heineman. When Northwest organized NWT Natural Resources Co. earlier this month to drill for oil and gas, Deichen was made president. Now, at 28, he is getting a salary and bonuses that may hit $75,000, plus handsome stock options. He still skips off occasionally for long weekends...
...offer. He remained ingenuous; amid the bonanzas of the West, he panned only fool's gold. In San Francisco, a friend from the East talked him out of $1,500 for a partnership, gulled him into destroying the notes and soon absconded. On Army duty in the Pacific Northwest, he sought to make some side money raising potatoes for hungry settlers; the Columbia River flooded his fields. Posted to bleak Fort Humboldt on the California coast, Captain Grant pined for his wife Julia, the daughter of a Missouri country gentleman, and their two small boys. Depression led to drink...