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...resounding "So help me God!" he pledges to uphold the Constitution, and then calls for an "era of national renewal." He leaves the platform, with the U.S. Marine Band playing Hail to the Chief, and minutes later a plane half a world away finally lifts off from a Tehran runway, thus ending an ordeal that has sapped the nation's confidence for 444 agonizing days. Hollywood would not have touched such an improbable melodrama, but so it happened last week, and Ronald Wilson Reagan was the leading...
Official confirmation of the report did not come until shortly after 12:33 p.m., when the first of two planes on the Tehran runway finally took off. The second, which actually bore the hostages, left five minutes later. Gary Sick, the National Security Council's chief Iran team member, relayed the word to Jimmy Carter as he rode toward Andrews Air Force Base for his flight home. James Brady, the new presidential press secretary, tapped Reagan on the shoulder as he entered the Capitol for a lunch with participants in the Inaugural ceremony and told him the news, relayed...
...weeping at the runway, upset at leaving her friends, six of whom had come to see her off. Carter embraced her, stroked her hair, and finally stood on the steps to make an announcement: "Come on everybody. This is a time to be happy. Get on board." The six children scampered up the stairs and flew off to Plains. They returned with the plane that night...
...nervous, you don't understand what's happening." But both men are looking forward eagerly to the moment when they will "thread the needle" with Columbia as they blast off from Cape Canaveral and then come plummeting down for their one and only pass at the runway 54 hours later. Says Young: "Unbelievable...
Conscious of then-past problems, Atlanta Airport officials are already planning a fourth runway that will be ready for landings and takeoffs in 1983. By the year 2000, Hartsfield will be able to handle 75 million passengers a year, nearly double the present load. Even transfers to heaven or to hell should now be easier in Atlanta...