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Long lines of holiday travelers pushing heavily laden baggage carts were waiting in the main departure lounge of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport. Hardly anyone paid much attention to four dark-complexioned young men who mingled with the crowd. One wore an expensive gray suit and camel's hair topcoat. Two were in blue jeans and jackets, and had pulled scarves partly over their faces. The fourth sported a green beret. They were not traveling light: they carried 13 hand grenades and four AK-47 automatic rifles...
Started in 1948, World has teetered on the edge of financial ruin several times. It made its name flying refugees during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. A World aircraft was the last commercial airplane to leave Da Nang in 1975--overloaded with so many Vietnamese that eight turned up in the wheel wells. After an unsuccessful attempt at becoming a regularly scheduled carrier in the 1980s, World focused on military flying in the 1990s...
...Foucault's Pendulum, published in 1988, tells the story of three men in modern Italy whose intellectual games about the Knights Templar catapult them into danger. Along with The Name of the Rose, it helped to spawn an industry of history-infused thrillers - most recently, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Eco is not convinced by Brown's formula: "The whole conspiracy of that plot ... is contained in Foucault's Pendulum. It's all old material that's been covered a thousand times before. Brown was very good at taking trash lying around and turning it into a page...
...da Vinci scholar, Fehrenbach added that he was not impressed by Dan Brown’s best-selling book...
...Da Vinci Code”] is a disappointingly bad, boring and astonishingly uptight book, without any humor—and also a misleading one, since Leonardo felt disgust about anything related to occultism, esoteric ‘wisdom,’” Fehrenbach wrote...