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While still in school, MacCready managed to win three U.S. National Soaring Championships, and rode the updrafts east of the Sierra Nevada range to a then record 29,500-ft. altitude. After graduation, he went on to become the first American to win the International Soaring Championship, at St. Yan, France in 1956. While soaring, and daydreaming, he also conceived the MacCready speed ring, a simple indicator now universally used by glider pilots to determine the optimum speed they should use in flying between thermals, or updrafts...
Seventy years later, a young, ambitious member of Harvard's student government delivered a similar pledge and--like the businesslike Ohio senator--he rode it into office...
...Bill Cleary rode in to 60 JFK St. promising to emphasize participation--i.e., intramurals and women's athletics...
...pride. Those are the three areas I think Satan attacks God's servants on. I was told that many years ago by an old clergyman, and I never forgot it. And I learned from that moment on that I would be tempted in those areas. So I never rode in a car with a woman alone. I never have eaten a meal with my secretary alone or ridden in a car with her alone. If we sit in here and I dictate something to her, the door is open. And just little things like that, that people would think...
Shortly before midnight on April 7, a chartered Boeing 707 took off from the Dominican Republic, bound for Montreal. Inside the cabin rode 47 Chinese, all of them sitting comfortably in the first-class section. The cockpit crew thought they were VIPs, but as soon as the plane was in the air, the passengers began shredding the fake British Hong Kong passports that had got them this far and took turns flushing the illegal documents down the toilets. Upon arrival, the passengers -- mainland Chinese citizens who had paid as much as $20,000 each for their journey to freedom -- pleaded...