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The journey got off to a rocky start when engine trouble grounded Wallace's chartered jet for ten hours in Newfoundland. Wallace was noticeably weary when he finally arrived in London early Monday morning. But with his usual cockiness, he drawled: "I've been up two nights now...
Surely, then, we would argue, if the behavior of our forefathers was not impeccable, at least they were more religious than we. Not necessarily. For whatever that means, church membership in the 1770s was actually much lower than it is today -only 6% or 8% of the population by most...
Skimpy Profit. Pan Am will not be grounded-at least not immediately. A small tax credit and changes in accounting methods enabled the airline to show a skimpy profit of $4 million for the second quarter. Through rigid cost-cutting measures that included reducing employment by 3,100, Pan Am...
Some of these points had been agreed on, in principle at least, before Kissinger's shuttle flights between Jerusalem and Cairo were grounded by deadlock. But political changes since that time have helped nudge the principals closer on remaining issues. One change is that Rabin's government, too...
DONALD K. ("DEKE") SLAYTON, 51, docking-module pilot, is the oldest and among the toughest and most outspoken Americans ever to orbit the earth. A ruggedly handsome World War II bomber pilot, Wisconsin-born Slayton studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Minnesota; he and ins wife Marjory have an...