Safe Landing: Jeana Yeager, who made history...

Safe Landing: Jeana Yeager, who made history in the nonstop round-the-world flight of the Voyager in 1986, walked away from an emergency landing in Jackpot, Nev., after a plane she was co-piloting caught fire. Officials said Yeager and pilot Shirland K. Dickey were about four miles from an airport Sunday when the engine ignited. Yeager and Dickey made a powerless landing on the runway.

Having a Bad Day: Thursday was not a good day for Princess Michaela von Hapsburg, a granddaughter of the last emperor of Austria-Hungary. It was the day her eviction from a posh Manhattan penthouse became known when a city marshal announced an auction of her furnishings. It was also the anniversary of the 1914 assassination of von Hapsburg’s grandfather’s great-nephew, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, whose deaths signaled the beginning of World War I. A lawyer for the landlord said von Hapsburg did not make a March deadline for paying $108,000 in back rent.

Western Wall: Author James Michener said Wyoming residents should build a wall around the state to “keep the goons out.” Michener, the author of “Centennial,” told about 100 people in Cheyenne, Wyo., late last week the state needs to better protect all its natural resources, including Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Michener, 83, was in Wyoming to help the state celebrate its centennial.

Troubled Waters: Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) edged out his colleague Sen. Edward Kennedy in a yacht race Saturday as Kerry’s Shamrock V beat the Endeavour by 50 seconds near Boston. The race was staged to call attention to Boston Harbor’s pollution problems, which George Bush used against Gov. Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election.