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...only eight years ago that John Moody, lacking the money to buy a conventional light plane, put a go-cart engine on a hang glider and putt-putted 300 yds. through the air. Moody, now a Kansasville, Wis., ultralight-plane dealer, started a fad that last month took Joe Tong of Lecompton, Kans., through the amazed heavens from California to New York. Tong's 250-lb. ultralight plane made the trip in a record 18 days. But Tong was not fast enough to escape arrest for a bad check he had dropped in Grand Rapids, Minn., during the trip...
...long runway with such force that the nose wheel collapsed under it. Sparks flew and clouds of black smoke trailed from the tires as Pearson locked the brakes. Said Passenger Bryce Bell: "People were screaming, kids were crying." The plane finally came to a stop just 300 yds. short of a cluster of trailers filled with families. The only casualties: several passengers who were slightly injured as they slid down the plane's emergency escape chutes...
...halfback of the Kansas City Chiefs; of drowning when he dived into a pond to rescue two floundering boys; in Monroe, La. Smallish for a pro football running back (5 ft. 10 in., 184 Ibs.) but remarkably quick and agile, Delaney rushed for a team record of 1,121 yds. and caught 22 passes as a 1981 rookie. The father of three children, one a newborn baby, he first warned the youngsters not to swim in a construction site's 20-ft.-deep water hole, plunged in after them and, although he knew how to swim, went under almost...
...quarterback who during his twelve-year (1949-60) pro career led the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles to National Football League championships; of a heart attack; in Monroe, Ga. A cool playmaker despite his hot temper, the "Dutchman" in a 1957 game completed 27 passes for 554 yds., a record that still stands. After his final playing season, he became the coach of the newly formed Minnesota Vikings, and later of the Atlanta Falcons, compiling respectable if losing records...
...guided one of the largest ships afloat through eight months and 46,500 uneventful miles at sea. Suddenly Captain Robert J. Kelly, at the helm of the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and a mere 1,700 yds. from voyage's end in San Francisco Bay, felt what he called "a very deep feeling in the pit of my stomach." His 1,123-ft.-long, 75,700-ton nuclear-powered vessel had veered out of its 42-ft.-deep channel and slid to a stop in 29 ft. of water...