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Postoperative Flight. Wheeler Airlines has 32 employees, including seven pilots, of whom one is black. The common denominator of the staff is enthusiasm. Says Bill Kempffer, 29, who triples as back-up pilot, public relations man and investigator of new route opportunities: "To work for Wheeler, you have to love flying." That certainly goes for the boss. Last month Wheeler had an appendectomy; a few days after the operation, with surgical staples still in his abdomen, he flew two round trips between Raleigh and Charlotte, then returned to the hospital for removal of the staples. Others among Wheeler...
...good many doors have already been pried open to bring about tins week's costly, cosmic spectacular. The flight was preceded by some 2,000 hours of training by the American and Soviet crewmen and back-up teams in Houston, Cape Canaveral and Star City, the cosmonaut complex outside Moscow. There was also close cooperation by U.S. and Soviet design and engineering teams, as well as delicate diplomatic negotiations that go back five years and, ultimately, to 1961, when President John Kennedy, in a light moment at ins Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev, suggested to the Soviet Premier...
...chopper lifted off its pad and headed for Beirut. The chosen route was along the border between Lebanon and Syria, so that radar scanners in either country might assume that the two helicopters came from the other side and were flying a routine mission. Meanwhile, other choppers with a back-up team aboard flew over the Mediterranean toward Lebanon; they would land near Beirut if the first team was discovered and shot down...
...band and staff, mementos of Wembley. With a personal assistant and two anxious salesmen in tow, he begins inspecting gold necklaces. "Should the necklace go to Brenda?" he asks rhetorically. "No, the necklace goes to Connie; it's a purse for Brenda." Brenda Russell is a back-up singer; Connie Pappas is with Rocket...
...already a star of longhair country, who was stretching folk material across thudding rock rhythms. Emmylou had a gift for penetrating to the heart of a lyric. Parsons taught her to sing honky-tonk ballads like his Sin City, and soon invited her to Los Angeles to do back-up harmonies for his albums (GP and Grievous Angel). When Parsons died in 1973, she was personally and professionally devastated. "Gram turned me on to root country, to George Jones with his East Texas twang," she says. "I still try to learn Gram's songs and copy his phrasing." Parsons...