Word: pipere
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...soon some of the zamindar's neighbors were richer than he. Partly to assert his superiority, partly to gratify his passion for music, he took to regaling his acquaintances at lavish musical evenings. When his dutiful wife warned him that it was costing too much to pay the piper, he waved her away. "If I cut corners I shall lose face...
...President Kennedy sunned on board the Honey Fitz off Hyannis Port on a recent Sunday, a Piper Cub droned back and forth overhead, towing a ban ner with a pointed message: JFK PLEASE HELP NORTHEAST AIRLINES. A few days later, Teddy Kennedy made his maiden speech in the Senate - and demanded that the Civil Aeronautics Board reverse its "tentative" decision against renewal of Boston-based North east's certificate to fly the New York-Miami route. Fearful of losing their jobs, Northeast's 2,200 employees organized a lobby, and some Northeast pilots even implored airborne passengers...
...started slowly walking, while the others trailed dubiously behind. Then he was whooping and laughing and fast-stepping, next trotting, and finally he broke into a full gallop across the field with the whole camp of 600 streaming along in joyful pursuit. Mused one observer: "A regular Pied Piper." · · · For a year now, Somerset Maugham, 89, growing ever more crotchety with age, has been trying to disavow Lady John Hope, 47, the daughter with whom he has been feuding, and to disinherit her in favor of his longtime secretary-companion Alan Searle. Last week a Paris court...
...served in the presidential honor guard in Washington, then joined his parents in their home at Honolulu's Hickam Air Force Base. Attending the University of Hawaii, he met a pert drum majorette named Trudy Olson. Among Trudy's attractions: she owned a third interest in a Piper Cub and taught flying. They were married in 1947; and today they fly in their own Beechcraft Bonanza (Cooper is the only plane owner among the astronauts). Their daughters. Cam, 14, and Jan, 13, sometimes take a supervised turn at the controls...
...night landing Down Under, Aviatrix Betty Miller, 37, first woman to fly solo across the Pacific -7,400 miles from San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia-was met by 3,000 rooters singing For She's a Jolly Good Fellow. Now, after ferrying a twin-engined Piper Apache to its Australian buyer, the housewifely Santa Monican couldn't wait to board a Pan Am 707 jet and get home to her husband. Weatherwise, she admitted that she had bounced around a bit during the island-hopping twelve-day flight. And there was a tense moment when "one engine sort...