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Copyright 1980 The Washington Post  
The Washington Post

May 15, 1980, Thursday, Final Edition

SECTION: Style; Personalities; F3

LENGTH: 669 words

BYLINE: James Schwartz and Jura Koncius

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Composer Cole Porter wrote that flying so high with some guy in the sky was his idea of nothing to do.  Not so with Linda Beckley, wife of motorcycle jumper Ed Beckley.
Together the couple make up the team of "Big Ed and Motorcycle Mama" and have been traveling around the country leaping over parked cars on their 500-cc Yamaha.  Big Ed, however, will soon be going his own speedy way. 
Terming himself the world's "largest cycle jumper," the 6-foot-2, 325-pound daredevil plans to leap from one tower to the other of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan in 1981 or 1982.  Each tower is 110 floors high.
Beckley, who suffered severe injuries in a jump six years ago, says of his skyscraping sally, "It'd be worth a million dollars . . . I would either go 80 feet straight across or a quarter mile straight down.  Either way it'd be my last jump."
In the meantime, Beckley wants to chance a ride over an Appalachian lake in West Virginia.  The last person to try that 200-foot flight was Bob Gill, who was paralyzed in the attempt.  Beckley has been offered $100,000 dollars for his feat.
Yesterday attention focused not on the Rose Garden but on a small sturdy red maple on the North Lawn of the White House.  There, at high noon.  First Lady, Rosalynn Carter and Penny Laingen, wife of Iranian hostage Bruce Laingen, bedecked the tree with yellow ribbon.
It marked the beginning of a national efort on behalf of his first ladies of all 50 states and the Family Liaison Action Group (formed by families of the hostages) to affirm a commitment to the safe return of the American hostages being held in Iran.
"Symbols are very important to us," said Laingen, whose husband was charge d'affairs of the American Embassy in Iran when it was taken over by the millitants.  "The ribbon is a symbol of the hostages and our attempts to gain their release." Laingen was wearing a black dress with a lapel ribbon of the Blue Light Brigade -- the special military unit that made the hostage rescue attempt.
Laingen, who last heard from her husband in March, said she believed that he is still most likely being held in the foreign ministry building in Tehran. h"I haven't any plans to go abroad now," she said, "but maybe after I get my son off to camp."
At the same time the ribbon was being tied at the White House, first ladies in Illinois, Nebraska, Arkansas and Oregon were also tying ribbons on their governors' mansion grounds.  The group hopes to tie yellow ribbons in all 50 states as well as to visit American embassies abroad.
Rock singer Eddie Money doesn't hold any grudges.  Not even against the Berkeley, Calif., municipal court judge who once sentenced him to weekends at a county jail for "malicious mischief."
The 31-year-old Money will apparently headline a May 24 benefit concert to help Judge Mario Barsotti in his fight against a recall election.  Barsotti has been accused of "anti-tenant bias" and of "using his position for class war against those who are not affluent" by the Earth People's Park Commune.  That Berkeley-based group was handed their eviction papers on Barsotti's order after their unpaid rent bills for 1978 reached $1,800.
The rock promoter who is staging the benefit concert is Bill Graham, Money's manager.  He is also the employer of Barsotti's two sons.
One less paycheck for Paycheck:
Singer Johnnie Paycheck included in his musical repertoire a lyric advising an employer to "take this job and shove it.  I ain't working here no more."
Now the Huntington, W.Va., City Council says that the country and western idol won't be working at their Civic Center no more, because of complaints that he drank beer and smoked during one of his performances there last week.
City Councilman Harold Frankel explained that Paycheck violated a rule which prohibits anyone in the auditorium from engaging in either activity.  Huntington's manager, Dick Barton, added that the performer's drinking "left a bad taste in the city's mouth."

GRAPHIC: Picture, Penny Laingen, and Rosalynn Carter, by Margaret Thomas

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