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...blue and white, twin-engine Beechcraft Baron lifted off the choppy runway in Chillicothe, Mo., one evening last week, its occupants had good cause for jubilation. Millionaire Congressman Jerry Litton had just scored a dramatic upset in Missouri's Democratic senatorial primary. Now, accompanied by family and friends, he was headed for a victory party with 1,500 campaign workers in Kansas City's Hilton Plaza...
...whose latest haute couture collection could alter the way women will dress in the next decade. The 800 or so journalists, store buyers and private clients invited to the lavish showing were awestruck. Some were even reduced to tears as Saint Laurent's models glided along the runway, demonstrating what many predicted would be the New New Look: narrow waist, calf-length bouffant skirt for daytime and huge, all-enveloping coat...
...would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever set itself down on a two-mile runway with more assurance or aplomb. She leaps, twists, spins, and the 18,000 people in Montreal's Forum realize that they are witnessing an exhibition of individual achievement that is truly Olympian. The judges agree. Their verdict on Nadia Comaneci, 14, of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Rumania: she is perfect...
Ground Control: JVH, Quebec ground. Runway zero six, wind zero seven zero at five, time zero two five five, altimeter two nine nine four. Cleared to taxi...
...honeymoon, however, proved a short one. Departing a day later, the Air France plane raced down the runway and then lifted off with a deep-throated rumble. One FAA sound meter recorded the plane's noise level at 129 perceived noise decibels; that was 16 decibels more than the loudest Boeing 707 measured that day, and it meant, logarithmically, the Concorde was more than twice as noisy as the 707. There was no decibel reading for the British flight because the pilot, exercising his prerogative to switch runways, made a last-minute decision to take off on a runway...