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This time the 747-load of fools consists of rich folks being ferried to an art-gallery opening in Palm Beach at the lavish expense of its owner (James Stewart). Also aboard are many of his paintings and a gang of hijackers who gas crew and passengers and slip down below the altitude where radar can track the craft. Then they fly it smack into the ocean. The thing sinks but does not flood, thanks to some watertight compartments Stewart has thoughtfully provided for his artwork. Everyone behaves predictably. Pilot Jack Lemmon is valiant and resourceful, older character people like...
...appropriate." Much of the confusion has been ironed out-with the help of all those added staffers and simply more time to get on top of the job. Meanwhile, a backlog of 314,000 unanswered letters has been cleared up, and the extra staff helps to handle the mail load, which averages 75,000 letters a week...
Greis had acquired quite a load of silverware since she took up the game six years ago. She was the Massachusetts Girls' Champion in 1975 and finished as runner-up in the state Schoolgirl Championship three times...
Indefatigable, Peres nowadays begins touring military installations at dawn and frequently works until midnight. Despite his heavy work load, he finds time to write poetry, which he keeps to himself, and has published two books, including David's Sling, an autobiographical account of his role in building Israel's defenses. At home in his small, book-lined apartment in Tel Aviv, where he lives with his wife Sonia and two of his three children, he speaks mainly of literature; his tastes range from Norman Mailer to Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Yukio Mishima...
...result: one of the biggest privately financed urban-development deals in history. Ren Cen's first mortgage loan came to $200 million, which Ford and friends say is the largest mortgage ever awarded to a single real estate project. Twenty-eight banks had to share the load for the up-front construction loan that the mortgage will cover. Among them: Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty, First National of Chicago and Bank of America. The 51 Ren Cen partners, for their part, coughed up $114 million in equity, much of it in staggered amounts as costs surged. Said one banking partner...