Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a setting it does not seem strange that the street lights should suddenly go out at 12:33 a.m. on Wednesday, the anniversary day, or that air-conditioning units straining against the muggy night air should go silent. Richard David Hyder, 29, a private security guard paid to protect an electricity substation, has come to work at midnight after taking a few drinks. For reasons of his own he has flipped a bank of switches. For three hours, until power is restored, there is scattered looting of liquor stores, as sheriffs deputies, National Guardsmen and nonstriking city police supervisors...
Fittingly, Hua was given a boisterous reception-although one that was carefully gauged not to exceed that given Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev on his last visit to Bucharest. After an open-air limousine ride into the capital amid crowds estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, Hua held private conversations with Ceauşescu, and was expected to visit the oil center of Ploesti, the Black Sea port of Constanta, and the Danube River port of Galati, which is within sneering distance of the Soviet border...
...blood disorders among embassy personnel, as well as a number of birth defects in their offspring. A former Marine guard has filed for $1.75 million in damages from the State and Navy departments for his severely retarded child. Increasingly, people exposed to large amounts of microwave radiation, notably air traffic controllers and radar operators, are seeking damages or disability payments from both the Government and private manufacturers...
Last week, after investigating a recent outbreak in Bloomington, Ind., which killed three people, Atlanta's Center for Disease Control announced a partial solution of that puzzle. The organism, or one closely resembling it, was found in water from an air conditioning cooling tower atop the Indiana University Memorial Union Hotel, where many of the victims had stayed, as well as in a nearby creek. The key to the discovery: two new culture media specifically designed to foster laboratory growth of the bug, which ordinarily multiplies so slowly that it is obscured by other bacteria...
Last year the security guards now posted in just about all U.S. airports seized precisely 2,034 weapons-most of them carried by passengers about to board planes, others discarded in airport washrooms or behind the plastic palms in the waiting areas. Despite the sharp increase in air travel so far this year, the weapons take is off by about 25%. As of mid-August, the Federal Aviation Administration reports, the total of pistols, rifles, Mace canisters and assorted other items of hardware seized had reached "only...