Gene Kranz had always wanted to be a pilot, but his flying career almost crashed on take-off. Accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy, he flunked the physical due to diabetes.
“I had been working at the A&P warehouse and living on chocolate milk and brownies,” Kranz, 75, said. “We didn’t have money to go to college, [...]
Port Authority Police Officer David Lim felt the building shake at 8:46 a.m. “It was like a jolt and lasted about five seconds,” he said.
Sitting in his basement office (B-1 level) in Two World Trade Center (South Tower), Lim said he knew something was wrong. Within seconds a transmission crackled over his high-frequency radio – [...]
When Frances Hesselbein was approached by a neighbor to be a scout leader of a failing troop, she thought the idea was ridiculous. Not only had she never been a Girl Scout, she didn’t even have a daughter.
Busy assisting her husband in his business, Hesslebein agreed to help, and a six-week chore as a scout [...]
It began with a small notice on a campus bulletin board. A rock climber, Curt Haire, was looking for a ride to Zion National Park in southern Utah in exchange for climbing lessons. Stacy Allison, a first-year student at Oregon State University in the late 1970s, was intrigued. She and a girlfriend decided to go.
“It [...]
The Rev. Tom Doyle was on the fast track. Eleven years after ordination to the Roman Catholic priesthood he was a canon or church lawyer on the staff of the Vatican embassy in Washington, D.C. His future looked exceedingly bright.
But in 1984 his career took a swerve he didn’t see coming. The idealistic Doyle was [...]