Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet authorities clearly tried to make an example of Shcharansky, hoping that his fate would serve as a warning to other dissidents who might seek to air their hopes and grievances to foreigners. Despite the KGB'S best efforts, Shcharansky refused to cooperate in his own humiliation. The secret police failed to get a confession from him during 16 months of pretrial imprisonment. He was held incommunicado and presumably was unaware that his case had provoked world wide protest. Even knowing that he risked the death sentence by not yielding to his interrogators, Shcharansky pleaded not guilty on the first...
When the Olympics sequences finally arrive, they clear the movie's air. The horses take spectacular yet graceful leaps...
...company's Chicago headquarters. There was also a fascinating newcomer on the scene, the European Airbus consortium. Reason for the wooing: United, the free world's largest airline, was preparing to place the first big order for the new generation of supersophisticated jetliners on whose fleet wings air travelers will fly into the 21st century...
...cost of $1.2 billion, United will take 30 767s, twin-engine, wide-bodied jets that so far exist only as models in a wind tunnel. The new plane, designed to fill the gap between the long-range jumbos and short-range feeder planes, will be in the air by mid-1982, carrying 197 passengers on trips of 500 to 2,200 miles. It will look like a much fatter 707 with two huge engines hanging from thinner, longer wings. Because of its advanced aerodynamics and improved engines, it will be quieter, more comfortable and some 35% cheaper to operate than...
...President Richard J. Ferris explained the decision. Ferris conceded that his airline's experts had been attracted by the advanced version of the European Airbus; designated the B10, it is a scaled-down, 200-passenger version of the present Airbus, four of which are already flying for Eastern Air Lines. The 767 won, said Ferris, because of its superior performance for passengers and pilots alike. Passengers, accustomed to the sardine seating in the present jumbos, will find the 767 less claustrophobic. The coach section will have seven seats abreast, aligned in a two-three-two pattern, with two aisles...