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Thursday, May 21,1987 10-A The Tampa Tribune (' 1 I I Bowl From Page 1A and Billy Sullivan of the New England Patriots spoke for Miami, which has the Super Bowl in 1989. "We had a lot of quiet support," said Culverhouse. "All ballots were secret of course, but we pretty well know who voted for us. I will let dad know as soon as I can. "I explained he was in China on a long-planned trip to visit old World War II haunts, but that he was 100 percent behind the game coming to Tampa.

I also argued that the decision could not be made on economic propositions alone." San Diego pounded away at the financial package it was offering, which, by its calculations, was tops. Some owners opposed such an approach. Culverhouse hit hard with the move of the Gasparilla celebration to Super Bowl week in 1991 and at the proven record of the 1984 Super Bowl, held in Tampa. He pointed out San Diego had not yet held a Super Bowl but did have one coming next January. San Diego owner Spanos "did a fine job with his presentation," said Culverhouse, "then congratulated us on our win.

A lot of owners did." All predictions had Tampa a slight favorite over fast-coming San Diego. The cities are very much alike, as were their presentations. "It was no special point" said Rozelle. "It was the overall presentation that did it" Baldwin was beside himself. "I think my hair will start to grow again now," he said, rubbing his unhairy head.

"I'm relieved. I am elated and happy for the Tampa Bay community. It was a job a lot of people contributed to and plenty of credit must go to Hugh Culverhouse, senior and junior. What a job they did. Without them, we would not have won this Associated Press photograph From left, Mayor Sandy Freedman, Barbara Ca- Levy emerge from conference room in San Die-sey, Rick Nafe, Walter Baldwin and Leonard go after making pitch for 1991 Super Bowl.

Paris that month was shocked over the disappearance of the French flying team of Nungesser and Coli on May 8 in an attempt to fly the Atlantic from east to west The French newspapers were reporting the activities at Roosevelt Field, but little space had been devoted to the Midwesterner and his little monoplane. Lindbergh's plan to fly alone with a single motor was reported with skepticism. War aces and commercial flyers interviewed at the headquarters of the International League of Aviators in Paris were "almost unanimous" in their conviction that Lindbergh was taking a "crazy" chance, though most added that it was a "fine" idea. When Le Matin announced shortly after 9 p.m. that Lindbergh had been sighted over Cherbourg, and as subsequent reports charted his progress up from the coast, scores of thousands climbed simultaneously into their cars and drove toward the field, where other tens of thousands had long been gathered.

Lindbergh followed the Seine River to Paris and circled the city before spotting the field at Le Bour-get. At 10:15 p.m., the sound of an engine was heard across the airfield; then it faded into silence. The crowd sighed in more than disappointment almost despair. Suddenly sound returned, and the craft came slanting toward land. "F-L-A-S-H PARIS LINDBERGH LANDED 5:21 PM." The flier was not prepared for the thousands of people who swept toward the Spirit of St.

Louis crying, "Leen-behrg, Leen-behrg," as he tried to taxi up to the front of the hangars. He had to chop his engine to keep his propeller from slicing into the crowd. In 33 hours and 29 minutes, he had connected the continents with a crossing of the Atlantic at an average speed of 10712 miles an hour. "Here we are," he said, grinning, as the crowd opened the door. Later, after Lindbergh was widely feted, he was commissioned colonel and received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Congressional Medal of Honor and so many foreign decorations and honorary memberships it would take pages to list them all.

He was offered $2.5 million for a tour of the world by air and $700,000 to appear in films. His signature sold for $1,600. A Texas town was named for him, and scores of streets, schools, restaurants, and corporations used his name. Tragedy struck after he became famous, with the kidnapping and killing of his infant son. Before Lindbergh died in 1974 at 72, he wrote six books and received the Pulitzer Prize for "The Spirit of St.

Louis," a 1953 book about his flight Spirit From Page 1A ment and the National Guard. In the spring of 1925, he became an air-mail pilot, and it was while flying the route from St Louis to Chicago that he decided to compete for the Orteig prize. Financed by St Louis businessmen, he placed an order for a Wright Whirlwind monoplane for $14,000. They named the aircraft the Spirit of St. Louis, a name that would soon be known around the world.

The race to prepare for the flight turned out to be a hurry-up-and-wait situation. A week-long storm over the North Atlantic delayed all departures. On the evening of May 19, though the weather continued to be bad in New York, there suddenly came reports of improvement in the mid-Atlantic. Lindbergh was the only one ready to take off. He had gone to bed around midnight but couldn't sleep.

Shortly after 2 a.m., he rose and fired up the Spirit of St Louis. Before takeoff, when reporters asked Lindbergh if the four sandwiches he was taking would be enough for the 30-hour flight he replied: "If I make Paris, I won't need any more. If I don't I won't need any at all." Liftoff, 7:52 a.m. The Associated Press issued a bulletin: "ROOSEVELT FIELD, NEW YORK, MAY 20 AP CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, 'CAPTAIN' TO THE MISSOURI NATIONAL GUARD, BUT 'SLIM' TO HIS BUDDIES, SET OUT TODAY ON AN UNMARKED AIR TRAIL FOR PARIS." The country became exhilarated with a common emotion.

In darkened motion-picture theaters recently converted to sound by William Fox, gasping and cheering audiences saw the Spirit of St. Louis roar into life, thunder down the field and lift shakily into the air. In 100 feet of film, Fox had put drama and reality into sound movies for the first time. Lindbergh's route to Paris was the shortest. Called the great circle, it cut across Long Island Sound, Cape Cod and Nova Scotia, then skirted the Newfoundland coast.

Staying awake was his biggest problem. The moment he neglected the plane, it would wander from the course he had set. Each time he dozed, even for a few seconds, he had to estimate the deviation and make the necessary corrections. After daylight when Lindbergh spied some fishing boats, he swooped down to glide near enough to ask if Ireland was just ahead, but he got no answer. Ireland, it turned out, was just ahead, and he flew over it southern England and the English Channel.

on the Super Bowl. Hugh Culverhouse Jr. obviously represented his father well. I am pleased because I believe our community deserved another one, because of the hundreds of people who worked so hard to make the '84 Super Bowl the success it was. Had it not been, we would not be celebrating as we are today, celebrating the game and the attention it will focus on our city and the economic impact it will bring.

"But I knew it would happen," said Levy, with a grin. "Mayor Sandy and George Pennington and I were in a cab going to San Diego proper this morning and a black cat ran out in front of us. The driver stopped and the cat turned around and went back the other way." Pit bull owners win fuss HAVERHILL, Mass. (AP) City officials have bowed to pressure from angry pit bull owners and said they would reverse last week's decision to ban pit bulls. Councilors pledged Tuesday to revoke the ban they passed unanimously May 12 ordering all American Staffordshire terriers and American pit bull terriers out of the city by July 1.

also failed. The screams of the passengers grew so loud that controllers could barely hear Pawlaczyk's messages. Flight attendants realized the passengers were out of control and finally locked themseives into the cockpit the sources said. Jettisoning fuel to lighten his load, the pilot increased air speed, hoping the rush of wind would blow out the fires raging in the two engines at the rear. It didn't work.

Pawlaczyk began weaving. The sources said he apparently was trying to calculate with most of his instruments not working the likeliest combination of speed, cross winds and distance that would nurse the plane back to Warsaw. vJBaSSett "It is almost a miracle that he got as far as he did," one airport source said. After his U-turn, Pawlaczyk had only about 125 miles to go. Nearing Warsaw, he maneuvered into stiff headwinds to slow the aircraft down and, in effect, to glide into the airport.

He missed it by only four miles. For reasons not yet explained, the 11-62 abruptly lost speed. It plummeted into the Kabaty Woods, avoiding a housing complex where thousands of people live. Pawlaczyk needed less than one more minute in the air. When he realized he wouldn't make it, he radioed one last message: "This is the end.

We're going down. Goodbye." Posture Deluxe SPECIAL BUY $108.00 248.00 set r) 2 2 IN great event. Thanks, I say, to the Culverhouses." Mayor Freedman declared that Tampa "today has again proven it can compete with the major cities of this country. We will begin immediately planning for the finest Super Bowl in NFL history, one befitting the silver anniversary. And we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Hugh Culverhouse for his work on this and other contributions to the community." The chairman of the effort that won the 1984 game for Tampa, Leonard Levy, praised his successor, Baldwin, "for doing a super job wrecking most of the electrical system.

The twin troubles made it impossible for Pawlaczyk, who had logged more than 5,500 hours flying Il-62s, to lower his wheels or to make a precision landing at nearby Grudziadz, about 150 miles northwest of Warsaw. He decided instead to make a wide U-turn back to Warsaw, airline officials said. A runway was set aside for him and Okecie's emergency fire brigade, the largest in Poland, went on full alert In the cabin, the atmosphere rapidly grew more hysterical. The loss of electricity wiped out a system designed to spray fire-extinguishing foam. A separate emergency electrical supply system 4 1 i I v.

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