Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Science story on the flight of the sky shuttle Enterprise was reported by Houston Correspondent George Taber and written by Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who journeyed to Edwards Air Force Base to get the feel of the place and plan the coverage. In New York, it was checked by Senior Reporter-Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Watching Enterprise 's touchdown on TV, Researcher Vanderschmidt experienced a special kind of journalist's empathy. She is a sailplane pilot herself...
...doctors reported in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine the death rate from heart disease is lower in mountains because people get better exercise in the thin mountain air...
...vent such feelings, and while it is highly unusual to write history in terms of personal rage, Mee somehow seems to capture an underlying anger that conventional histories of the Watergate era miss. He relates a mood with an effectiveness that no objective account could offer, but with an air of authority that a straight piece of fiction or biography would not provide. It is Mee's style that makes the book a cohesive and meaningful treatment of "the wounds that Watergate inflicted on the American psyche" (as the blurb on the jacket phrases it). Another writer might not have...
Inevitably, there have been accidents in the event's 25-year history. Six people have been killed, including one last week -Burton Bodven, 33, of Franksville, Wis., who died after another plane shirred off the tail of his craft in a mid-air collision. Yet all in all, home-built wings of man have had a relatively good safety record. According to Government estimates, home-built planes that have been legally certified as airworthy have an annual accident rate of 3% per active aircraft-the same as general aviation factory-built planes...
While Dryfoos grappled with these problems, Arthur Sulzberger's only son was marking time in a succession of minor posts in Times Co. management. Punch Sulzberger was an amiable presence around the building, though when he attended an occasional story conference he sometimes seemed more interested in examining the air-conditioning ducts on the ceiling. "The old man had this scenario," Sulzberger says of his father. "Orvil would go along for a while as publisher and then I was going to take over." But Dry foos died of a heart ailment at 50 after only two years...