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...landing at Dubuque, Iowa, 240 miles away. The pilot sensed a momentary regaining of some control. But then he lost it again. At 3:20 he declared that he faced an "emergency" and had to find the nearest landing spot. Controllers suggested he turn back to the west to reach Sioux City, a Missouri River town where one of the airport's runways is 9,000 ft. long. That could easily handle a DC-10. But Sioux City was 70 miles away...
...First Officer William Records, getting down on his knees to gingerly manipulate the throttles. Second Officer Dudley Dvorak walked to the back of the plane, trying to assess the damage. Haynes told controllers he could only make wide turns to the right and was worried about whether he could reach the airport. Alerted to the emergency, the tower at Sioux City informed local police and rescue units to prepare for either a crash landing on the runway or one on nearby Highway...
...Wildman in the 1987 film Wall Street, the 6-ft. 4-in. Goldsmith may have made his point all too well. Now that he has put B.A.T on the block, other raiders may try to top his offer. Or B.A.T may attempt to boost its stock price beyond his reach by launching a restructuring in which some of the company's juicy parts would be sold off. At week's end B.A.T shares closed at 14.21, indicating that investors expect an even sweeter offer to come...
Three-quarters of a billion people peered at the murky images on their television screens on July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong became the first human to stand on another world. To Americans, the spirit-lifting achievement was well worth the cost and effort. The quest to reach the moon had revitalized U.S. science and technology and yielded countless benefits to industry and the military. Most amazing of all, the Eagle landed only eight years after John F. Kennedy proclaimed the moonshot a national priority...
...after Apollo, something went wrong with the nation's space program. Despite successes -- such as the Skylab space station and the series of unmanned missions that will reach its climax next month when Voyager 2 arrives at Neptune -- the program seemed to founder. The space shuttle, for example, was oversold as the one answer to U.S. space-transportation needs. But it is too big to put astronauts in space efficiently, too small to launch the largest payloads and too unreliable to live up to the 60-flight-per-year schedule once promised. The result, even before the Challenger accident...