Word: planes
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Maxwell was a lifelong subscriber to Machiavelli's dictum that it is better to be feared than loved. David Adler, who was a Maxwell executive for three years, remembers being called on the carpet because he was unable to meet his master's plane at the airport. (He sent three limousines instead.) "Remember," Maxwell bellowed, "I am the most important person in your life...
...that triggered Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos' fall. Commando teams fanned out around her aircraft as it taxied to the gate, just as they had when opposition leader Benigno Aquino returned from exile eight years earlier. But instead of the fatal gunshots that greeted him, well-wishers surged onto the plane to welcome the former First Lady. Under a plan worked out by the Philippine national police and a coterie of retired Marcos loyalists, Imelda was escorted to a holding room for immigration and customs checks -- then a quick getaway...
From the moment of his appointment last May following the death of Republican John Heinz in a plane crash, Wofford, a Great Society liberal, began transforming himself into a Huey Long-like Democratic populist. In one early move, Wofford rejected the $150,000 he was supposed to receive for mass mailing expenses. In another, he renounced the $23,200 pay raise the Senate had voted itself. "There's a national recession out there," said Wofford. "Now is no time for us to be paying ourselves more of our taxpayers' hard- earned dollars." Wofford gave the extra money to a charity...
...Angeles Lakers fan Fidel A. Ovalle '92, who met the Lakers center two months ago on a plane trip, said he took Johnson's news as a personal loss...
...house he finds a mirror "with the silver mostly gone, as if all its reflections had worn it through." He hikes to the spot near Bazaar where, in 1931, the Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven other men died in a plane crash, after which local people carried pieces off for keepsakes. A woman tells him about running a health-food restaurant in a little burg called Cottonwood Falls: "We never did get the farmers to eat alfalfa sprouts. They know silage when they...