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...patch of noon on the dark runway, and the photographers stood poised at its fringes, squinting up into the light as the first tourists filed off the plane. Then she appeared in the welcoming glare-and nobody took her picture. An awkward moment. She smiled and started down the ramp. "There she is!" cried the producer of the film she had come to make. "That's Jeanne Moreau...
Five-Minute Glow. There was some question about whether any official welcome would show up; at the last moment Premier Chou En-lai appeared. Kosygin stepped quickly down the ramp, shook Chou's hand, then hugged him; Chou managed a tight smile. Mumbled Kosygin: "It is always a great pleasure." The glow lasted five minutes. Then Chou departed, leaving the Russian Premier to drive unescorted and unheralded to the Ying Ping Kuan guesthouse, where copies of a recent Peking People's Daily carried three acid poems of greeting to Kosygin. A sample...
Visitors will enter the low, narrow end of the museum after walking down a quarter-mile ramp. Up to that point, the museum's massiveness is masked by giant earthen embankments. Then, beginning with the Wright Brothers' flyer, visitors progress historically past World War I Jennys to more than 80 types of aircraft famed in military aviation. The winged exhibits, designed by Herb Rosenthal & Associates, sit on various levels more like discoveries than displays. The sparrowlike Spads of the Lafayette Escadrille will be shaded under Roche's giant hangar along with...
...remained the boss from his new post of chairman. William J. Hogan, who had been Sadler's rival for the job, continued to hold on tightly to the purse strings as executive vice president and chairman of the finance committee. For Sadler, 53, who had climbed from ramp attendant to president in 23 years, the built-in frustrations proved too much. Last week he resigned for "personal reasons...
While leaden skies drip rain, a twin-engine Convair rolls up the ramp at the Albany, N.Y., airport. Out step Barry Goldwater and Wife Peggy. There to greet them are Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his wife, Happy. The overheard conversation...