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...Vnukovo Airport last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev kissed the uniformed visitor on each cheek as gaily dressed schoolchildren offered bouquets of roses and carnations. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's martial-law leader, then shook hands with the phalanx of Politburo members who had waited on the tarmac to greet...
...twin-engine executive jet that landed at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport last week looked distinctly out of place next to the Ilyushins and Antonovs parked on the tarmac. On its fuselage was lettered United States of America. A team of top U.S. officials had flown in to discuss with Communist officials an issue that still stirs deep emotions among Americans: the fate of 2,553 U.S. soldiers still unrecovered from the Indochina...
...afflicts victims of a hostage taking. Only once, when his Air Force C-141 transport dipped a wing dangerously low during an aborted landing at Andrews Air Force Base, was his homecoming potentially marred. When the plane finally touched down safely, Dozier greeted Vice President George Bush on the tarmac with characteristic unconcern. Said he: "It's doggone good to be home...
...sitcom family returning from a vacation in the country, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Princess Anne and Diana, Princess of Wales, deplaned over the holidays at London's Heathrow Airport. The royal quartet, fresh from an outing in Scotland, grappled with a variety of hassles: driving wind, snowy tarmac, bulky luggage. And lots of dogs. There was Prince Charles' retriever Harvey, who couldn't wait to get off the plane. He bounded down the gangway, dragging Charles behind like a tin can. Then there was Anne's retriever. He took one look at the steep gangway...
...headquarters would remain in Findlay (pop. 36,000), where they have been almost since Marathon was founded in 1887 by 14 local oilmen. Hoopman got a hero's welcome when his Lockheed JetStar touched down last week after the deal was concluded. Findlayites swarmed around him on the tarmac, shouting, "Hoop, Hoop, hurrah!" Said one Wall Street analyst: "People did not want big oil in their town...