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WEDNESDAY
October 6
The University Career Center will host a volunteer fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Dole Institute of Politics will hold a lecture, "The 2010 Elections: One Month Out," with media consultant Mark McKinnon and David Schimke, the editor of the Utne Reader.
THURSDAY October 7
The Spencer Museum of Art will host a lecture on North Korea with former ambassador David Lambertson at 4 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Spencer.
- Student Union Activities will host a concert featuring B.O.B at 9 p.m. at the Lied Center. Tickets are $15 for students and $20 for general public.
SUNDAY
October 10
FRIDAY October 8
■ KU Opera will hold "Cosi Fan Tutte" at 7:30 p.m. in the Robert Baustian Theatre in Murphy Hall.
University Theatre will hold a production of "Lost in Yonkers" at 7:30 p.m. in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Student Union Activities will host a free concert with Yesir from noon to 1 p.m. in front of the Kansas Union.
MONDAY October 11
University Theatre will be hosting a production of "Lost in Yonkers" at 7:30 p.m. in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
■ KU School of Music presents a concert of KU Jazz Ensembles I, II, & III at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center, 494 New Hampshire St.
SATURDAY October 9
University Theatre will hold a production of "Lost in Yonkers" at 7:30 p.m. in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
TUESDAY October 12
The Dole Institute of Politics will be holding "Pizza and Politics" with Mark Zwonitzer, writer and director of PBS "American Experience," from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
The Hispanic American Leadership Organization will be holding "Nuestra Cultura Latina" from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center.
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Two veteran pilots die during gas balloon race in Europe
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They were two of the biggest names in balloon-racing — hall of famers, world record holders and winners of some of the sport's most prestigious awards.
The apparent deaths of veteran
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pilots Richard Abruzzo and Carol Rymer Davis during a European gas balloon race has rocked the sport and cast a pall over a major balloon fiesta happening this week in New Mexico.
There has been sobbing, teary eyes, hugs and the sharing of stories among those at the fiesta who knew Abruzzo, 47, of Albuquerque, and Davis, 65, of Denver. The event draws hundreds of pilots and more than 800,000 spectators to Albuquerque each year.
"These are people who lived life every minute. They had a passion for life and lived it fully. We want everybody else to do that too," said Kim Vesely, an Albuquerque pilot who remembers her first flight with Davis at a 1978 balloon rally
Abruzzo and Davis were flying in the 54th Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race when contact was lost Sept. 29 over the Adriatic Sea. Race organizers said radar indicated the two plunged toward the water at 50 mph (80 kph) and they likely didn't survive.
in snow-covered northern New Mexico.
Search and rescue teams with the Italian coast guard, the U.S. Navy and Croatian coastal aircraft crews spent five days scouring the sea. There has been no sign of the pilots or debris from their balloon, leaving some to speculate that the two could still be alive, waiting for help on an island.
But Kevin Knapp, a friend of the pair and deputy director of the
Abruzzo shattered his forearm and broke his pelvis in the 2005 Gordon Bennett when the Abruzzo-Davis balloon struck a power line in Kansas, and he tumbled from the gondola from about 25 feet. Davis landed the balloon and was not hurt.
"Something happened between that last transmission that says they were in a rapid descent and were trying to handle what was going on. It was a catastrophic situation because we don't have any debris," he said. "My thoughts are they didn't suffer."
the record books on several occasions.
The two biggest events in gas balloon racing are the Gordon Bennett and the America's Challenge, and Abruzzo and Davis dominated the competitions.
They won the 2003 America's Challenge one of Abruzzo's five victories in that race. They won the
Abruzzo and Davis were a huge deal in the sport.
In both events, the team that travels the longest distance wins. To achieve victory, pilots must astutely take advantage of wind currents and fluctuation in temperatures to get the most distance out of their balloons, encountering a series of hazards along the way.
America's Challenge gas balloon race, acknowledged that hope has faded.
Davis was inducted into the balloon fiesta's Balloon Hall of Fame in 2005, the same year she was recognized with a national award for outstanding performance by a woman in any form of aviation. She set altitude, distance and duration records for hot air balloons.
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In 2001, Richard Abruzzo set a world record by spending about 80 hours aloft in a gas balloon. Two years later, Abruzzo became the first person to fly solo across the continent in a helium balloon. His 73-hour, 20-minute trip covered 2,079 miles.
Their race successes put them in
2004 Gordon Bennett in France.
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