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...champagne as a band played Happy Days Are Here Again. The occasion was American's bubbly celebration of its new service between Harrisburg and Chicago. The highlight of the festivities was the presentation of a plaque to the first passenger booked on the maiden flight. The winner: Ron Rearick, 43, of Bellevue, Wash., who accepted the award and then gave his hosts a shock that flattened the champagne. He presented surprised officials with a copy of his book, Iceman, in which he described his unsuccessful 1972 attempt to extort $1 million from United Airlines by threatening to blow...
...American Airlines spokesman, John Hotard, tried to shrug off the embarrassing episode. Said he: "It happened, and now all we can do is laugh about it." The details of Rearick's life emerged following the ceremony. After his arrest and conviction on an extortion charge, Rearick was sentenced to 25 years in a federal penitentiary in Washington State. But after less than two years in prison, where he became a born-again Christian, Rearick received a pardon...
...hours Dave Rearick, 28, a Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech, and Bob Kamps, 26, a fourth-grade teacher in North Hollywood, stood on a ledge called Broadway and studied the wall looming over their heads. Then Rearick began the ascent. It took him half an hour to reach a narrow shelf 75 ft. up and toss down a rope for Kamps. From then on, their progress was measured in hours and inches. At dusk, they huddled on a tiny ledge, drove pitons into the sheer rock face and dozed through a night of wind and cold, lashed to the Diamond...
...rock, hooked a finger through the piton's eye and leaned dizzily backwards to search for a route above. Down below, the spectators stopped talking. Somehow the climbers found a way up the face, around the chock stone, and back into the chimney again. Some 45 minutes later Rearick's crew-cut head slowly appeared over the rim of the Diamond. Another ten minutes and both men were wearily standing together...
...might have quit except we burned our bridges behind us when we pulled most of our pitons," said Rearick. "We could never have gotten back down to Broadway." Then he made a terse entry in the logbook at the summit of Longs Peak: "First ascent of the Diamond...