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...things that any pop singer does to promote a record - tours, disc-jockey interviews. But before each appearance, she tips off the cops, timing the call so that they arrive too late to catch Bobby but in plenty of time to allow for a colorful comic chase. Naturally, the public rallies to him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. The film offers a glancing insight into a curious phenomenon of our time, namely, when the law's remedies for injustice fail, celebrity can be a powerful defense for the few individuals lucky enough to command...
...chase crew-Dougie's father and Lewis-follows by car, keeping in touch by CB radio. We have been aloft in the midsummer air for nearly an hour, using a tank of propane and traveling eight miles, when Dougie spots a convenient grassy knoll. He releases the hot air and drops us gently to the ground. Now it is time for the champagne...
...Copilot Charles Gordon Fullerton, 40, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, aboard the craft. Two hours later, engines roaring, the 747 mother ship raced down the runway and rose into the air with the Enterprise clinging to its back like a mating insect. Accompanied by five silver T-38 chase planes that drifted around the pair like pilot fish escorting a shark, the odd couple climbed slowly to 8,100 meters (27,000 ft.). At that altitude the 747 flew over an imaginary hump, then nosed downward to pick up speed. At 7,230 meters (24,000 ft.), Haise fired...
...power and weighing as much as 40 Chevrolet sedans, the shuttle was essentially an overweight glider. But despite the still-unexplained failure of one of the ship's five computers, her brief flight went exactly according to plan. "You're flying good," said one of the chase pilots, as the free-flying Enterprise tested her wings for the first time. A few moments later, Haise and Fullerton dropped the heavy craft down, then pulled up in a "flare," or simulated landing maneuver, to evaluate the orbiter's landing characteristics. "It's really there," said a delighted...
Should a bank grant a personal loan to the head of another bank that makes an interest-free deposit? Said a high officer of one of Manny Hanny's competitors: "Citibank wouldn't do it. Chase Manhattan wouldn't do it. Morgan Guaranty wouldn't do it." Now Comptroller Heimann will assess whether or not anything was improper. His investigation has been expanded to include all of Lance's loans from NBG correspondent banks -four of the five loans that...