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...just popped open the keg when the police came. Terry Chick is sitting locked into the fetal position right in the middle of the runway, with his hands over head, nothing around him for a hundred yards and he's being quiet so's no one will find him. He was so drunk...
...lined the streets of the capital, waving flags and shouting over and over, "Sheik Mujib! Sheik Mujib!" Promptly at 1:30 p.m., a blue and silver British Royal Air Force Comet dropped out of a brilliant sunny sky and ground to an abrupt halt on the shortened war-damaged runway. Sheik Mujibur Rahman was home at last...
...addition, the runway for the broad jump is shorter than that at Harvard's indoor athletic facility...
...East Central state. The scars of war, physical as well as psychological, have mostly faded. The sole reminders of the airstrip at Uli-Biafra's only gateway to the outside world during the long federal siege-are the rusting hulks of five relief planes that missed the runway in the darkness; the strip itself is a highway once more...
...family could just fit in. Last week he packed them all into the aircraft for the first time and tried to take off from a meadow near Prague. The overloaded Zlin did not even get off the ground. Undaunted, Bezak brashly tried again from the airport, where the runway offered a longer takeoff stretch. The little plane finally wobbled into the air and Bezak circled the airfield a couple of times as if he were on a Sunday excursion. He flew first toward East Germany to allay suspicion, and then headed toward West Germany at the Zlin's maximum...