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Orchids for the 3-D article and its satirical take-off on Hollywood's last stand to drain the public's inflated dollars to fill the decadent, demoralizing industry's coffers...
...World War I (in 32 months of aerial combat he got credit for 75 kills, unofficial credit for 51 more); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris. A national hero after the 1918 armistice, Fonck turned to civilian flying, narrowly escaped death when his S-35 crashed on the take-off of a 1926 transatlantic attempt. Back in uniform in 1939, Colonel Fonck led a fighter group until France fell, in 1942 disguised himself as a Trappist monk and helped organize an escape route through Belgium for downed Allied airmen. Arrested in 1944 on charges of Vichy collaboration, but never officially...
Roberto Rossellini, driving a 2,000 cc Ferrari ; he coasted slowly down the incline so that his personal cameraman could take pictures of his take-off (he dropped out of the race in Rome, the halfway point...
...crowd of some 30,000 watched intently as, one after another, the field of 100-odd jumpers came soaring off the takeoff. Some of the jumpers windmilled their arms awkwardly in trying to keep balance (and lost form points); others misjudged their take-off timing (and lost distance points). Some of the best of them came croppers: Norwegian-born Art Tokle took a bad fall on his second jump, wound up eleventh; Denver University's Billy Olson, co-holder of the hill record (297 ft.), also spilled out of the running. The crowd saved its biggest cheers...
...Take-Off. Soon after Damon came in, T.W.A. turned profitable. Modestly, he likes to say: "I've always had the good fortune to join a winning team just as it is starting to win." He explains that one decision had been put in motion by his predecessors, to consolidate T.W.A.'s two maintenance bases into one at Kansas City: "It was just waiting for me to say yes." This saved $2,000,000 a year...