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...sign up for 16 hours of classwork and 35 hours in the air at an FAA- approved school to obtain a private pilot's license. A commercial license requires more: between $3,500 and $4,000 and 250 hours of flight time. But it is a cosmic leap from this to an Air Transport rating of 1,500 flying hours minimum followed by specialized instruction for particular aircraft types...
...being chronological) boasts the O'Jays at the Hynes Auditorium at 8, with tickets running from $8.50 in advance to $9.50 at the gate. Sources say the group is not related to O. J. Simpson, although members of the band have been known to run madly through airports and leap over startled redcaps...
Strong feelings and forensics to match are commonplace when names are at stake-and they seem to be at stake all the time and all over the place in the U.S. The necessity of naming 3 million babies a year is only one source of nameless stress. Americans continually leap into flaps and furors over the naming and renaming of things and places. It amounts to a national obsession, or craze, or fascination, or mania-name it what you will-and it seems to be getting livelier all the time...
...present top rate of 49% would help mainly people in (or above) the 50% tax bracket, who are more likely to own stock and other assets. To be in that lofty bracket, one needs taxable income of about $40,000 or more. But a lot of "average" taxpayers leap into the higher brackets a few times in their lives-when they sell a house, a farm, or the stock that Aunt Tillie left them; or when they collect profit-sharing or stock-purchase funds from their employers. For them the benefits of Steiger could be significant. Examples...
...that all those on trial were militant Red Brigades members who assumed "collectively and in entirety responsibility for every one of its past, present and future actions." The kidnap-murder of former Premier Aldo Moro this spring by other Red Brigades terrorists, declared one of the defendants, was "a leap forward of high quality." Even as the jury was deliberating, two gunmen followed former Antiterrorist Squad Chief Antonio Esposito, 36, onto a Genoa bus and shot and killed him before horrified passengers. They then drove off in the car of a waiting accomplice. Meanwhile, the police have had little...