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...guy like Neeleman - constantly thinking of new ideas, doing the what-if stuff, puzzling over overseas expansion - becomes less useful as CEO when it's more important to know exactly how many crewmembers you need in Miami next week, or whether you are sufficiently hedged on fuel costs. So as chairman of the board, make that non-executive chairman, he'll have more time to figure out ways of improving the airline industry. And that could keep a body occupied for years...
Earlier this year, the BBC unearthed some startling documents in the British National Archives. The papers, which dated back to the Suez crisis in 1956, documented a proposal by Guy Mollet, France's Socialist Prime Minister of the time, to create a union between France and Great Britain. When his British counterpart, the Conservative Anthony Eden, flatly rejected the idea, Mollet suggested that France could instead become a member of the British Commonwealth...
...came up with a novel idea. Then as now, the world was occupied with the specter of war in the Middle East--this one precipitated by Egypt's decision to nationalize the Suez Canal. As troops from France and Britain geared up to attempt to take back the canal, Guy Mollet, France's Socialist Prime Minister, secretly presented his British counterpart Anthony Eden with a proposal: What if France and Britain became one country...
...garrulous, coolly competent perfectionist had a blast, smuggling a corned-beef sandwich aboard the Mercury, joking to reporters about his thoughts before a launch ("This was all put together by the lowest bidder") and cheering Americans with intra-capsule antics covered on TV. Yet he was the go-to guy for such delicate assignments as Gemini 6A--in which he made a critical snap call to stay aboard after an initial malfunction on the first launch attempt, and went on to outshine the Soviets by artfully orchestrating the first-ever space rendezvous. Recalling how vulnerable Earth looked from above...
...heroes. U.S. Army Captain Timothy Gittins met Wesley Autrey, the man who famously saved a stranger who had fallen onto New York City subway tracks. They acknowledged each other's bravery. "I'm just doing my job. You went above and beyond," said Gittins. "I just saved one guy. You faced enemies who had guns," Autrey responded. The evening finished with pop star John Mayer singing three stirring songs, the last one about the future of his generation...