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...good marriage is to marry someone who is a close and true friend whom you trust and respect and who has similar tastes and values. Then be a kind, considerate and courteous spouse who listens. True friends can usually work out any problems, including sexual ones. WILLIAM LLOYD STEARMAN North Bethesda...
Even grandparents who have no physical or cultural divides separating them from their grandchildren may yearn for ways to get closer. David Stearman and his wife Bernice are lucky enough to have all six grandkids living within a 25-minute drive of their home in Chevy Chase, Md. Nonetheless, the Stearmans are always looking for ways to enhance their togetherness. So Bernice has made a habit of taking the kids to "M&Ms"--movies and malls. David does something a little more adventurous. For the past 10 summers, he has gone to camp with one--sometimes two--of his grandchildren...
...sense he is doing a self-impersonation: after down-playing his astronaut background through much of the campaign, he used "the right stuff' as a tag line in his Southern television ads and played up his military past. In Pine Bluff, Ark., he piloted an antique Stearman training biplane ("That was fun!" he said) and at Ozark, Ala., drove an M-60 tank in figure eights ("That...
Died. Lloyd Stearman, 76, pioneering U.S. aircraft designer; of cancer; in Northridge, Calif. A Navy pilot during World War I, Stearman teamed up with two other air-struck Kansans, Walter Beech and Clyde Cessna, to build a generation of simple biplanes that became the Model Ts of the barnstorming 1920s. Though he founded his own aircraft firm and briefly ran Lockheed Aircraft Corp., his heart belonged to the drawing board; there he conceived such notable planes as the PT-17, the agile, open-cockpit trainer, known to thousands of World War II pilots as "the Yellow Peril," and continued...
...blocks long. Sober homesteaders built schools and churches instead of taverns, and Carry Nation carried her cause into the local saloons. The discovery of large oil reserves in 1915 produced another upswing and catapulted Wichita into the 20th century, attracting men like Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna and Lloyd Stearman, who turned the city into the "air capital of America...