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Williams' increasingly erratic behavior may have sparked the decision to make an arrest. The night before he was brought in, the suspect had led a police surveillance team on a chase through the city, driving past the homes of Mayor Maynard Jackson, Nathaniel Cater's father and finally Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, where he paused to honk his horn and shout. In addition, the possibility that Williams might attempt to flee was raised by reports that his father had requested information about a charter pilot at a local airport...
Still as trim and erect as he was in his days as a Marine test pilot, J. Lynn Helms, 56, the new Federal Aviation Administrator, climbed aboard a little two-engine Cessna, throttled down the runway at Washington National Airport and gave chase to a Boeing 727. He made six breathtakingly close passes at the larger aircraft, almost as if he were knocking MiGs out of the skies over Korea. Last week, several days after that acrobatic performance, Helms disclosed what he had decided as a result of the flight. By 1984, he announced, a new electronic warning system would...
...ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic in Connecticut and sent to Edouard Stackpole, whaling expert and curator of the Peter Foulger Museum in Nantucket. Here are excerpts from Nickerson 's chronicle...
...Jimmy was alarmed to see "a fairly robust-looking rabbit" hissing menacingly, with teeth flashing and nostrils flared, paddling furiously toward his skiff. When the furry creature got to within a hare's breadth of the craft, Carter took oar in hand and began flailing frantically to chase it away-or maybe even to split a hare. Aides scoffed when Jimmy first regaled them with his rabbit feat, until they learned that a White House photographer had recorded the incident. No doubt about it. The hare-rowing tail was fur real...
...Chase, Conti and Keith are one-man bands strutting their magnetic stuff; but it is in ensemble work that the London stage shines. In directing Nicholas Nickleby, Trevor Nunn juggled 43 actors in 138 speaking parts to create the propulsive bustle of Dickens' London. Now he and Choreographer Gillian Lynne have brought an informed anarchy to Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical settings for T.S. Eliot's exercise in whimsy and social satire, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. When it appeared in 1939, Practical Cats comprised 14 poems; Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow...