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...flip a coin with Richie Valens for the remaining seat. Valens won. The three musicians boarded the red and white single-engine Beech Bonanza around 12:30 on Feb. 3. Fans flocked to the tarmac, waving and crying and asking for autographs. The musicians waved back and then climbed onto the plane. Snow blew across the runway but the sky was clear. Peterson received clearance from the control tower, taxied down the runway and took off. He was never told of two weather advisories that warned of an oncoming blizzard...
...Chrysler will not get the funds they want to stay independent. The federal government may force them into Chapter 11 while providing funds to keep them operating indefinitely. Congress and the Administration may decide that supporting Detroit is necessary because closing the firms would put so many people onto the unemployment line. More job losses, of course, would in large part negate the goal of the stimulus plan to add three to four million new jobs to the economy over the next two years. From that standpoint, a $100 million investment is actually cheap...
...students allegedly transporting and preparing Molotov cocktails, in one instance igniting a small forest fire in a national park. (The students insist the fire was started by a police tear-gas canister, and that police had planted homemade bombs in one of their trucks.) "They want to provoke us onto the road of violence," Chávez told a crowd of supporters in western Venezuela this week, suggesting the students are "desperate" to have martyrs...
...often called the "bad bank" approach, because the government would set up an institution to buy up all the loans or bonds that are backed by borrowers who are nearing or in default. Sources say the FDIC has been against the loan guarantee plan, and only signed onto the Citigroup and Bank of America deals reluctantly...
Shangri-Spa. At Peninsula Hotel, a couple can book the private spa suite for a 4-hour treatment that includes a private yoga class. You're greeted with a tea ceremony and ginger foot scrub, then move onto a rose petal bath in the double soaking tub, side-by-side massages, a private steam room and champagne, fresh fruit and Jacques Torres chocolate. $1,425 for the package. 700 Fifth Ave at 55th...