Word: airings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chiefs of Staff, David Jones, and the four service chiefs took their places at the witness table. Behind them sat their advisers. Committee Chairman Church asked if,the chiefs were prepared to "give us your honest advice," even if it differed from their civilian bosses in the Administration. Replied Air Force General Jones: "Yes, sir. We pledge to do so." Indeed, when the chiefs appear before congressional committees, they are allowed by law to ignore instructions of their civilian bosses and speak their consciences...
...Today I am returning the DC-10 fleet to the air." That laconic announcement last week by Federal Aviation Administrator Langhorne Bond was received joyfully by the eight U.S. airlines that operate 138 wide-bodied DC-10 jets. For 37 days the planes had been grounded while FAA crews combed them for defects after the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport which killed 273 people. Each day that the fleet was idle cost the airlines $5 million. Two hours after Bond's announcement, the first domestic DC-10 took...
...civil war that has resulted in at least 15,000 deaths so far this year, the U.S. appealed for an end to arms shipments to both sides in the conflict. It remained to be seen whether that call for calm would be honored. Somoza's battered air force was reinforced by several T-28s, which can handle low-level bombing missions against guerrilla forces. U.S. officials in Managua were investigating reports that the planes had been illegally imported from America...
...season was late spring and early fall. Joe Namath's Jets has embarassed the NFL, while the Mets, on the way to the World Series, split a double-header with Montreal. In the Middle East, the war of attrition entered a new phase, as the Israelis began using their air power on Egyptian bases...
...Philadelphia lab, Moulton is training some 30 gerbils. For half an hour a day, they are put in training boxes, where they are confronted by three portholes. Purified air blows from two of the openings; the third assails them with a mix of air and amyl acetate, an odorous chemical that smells like bananas. When the gerbils correctly identify the odorous porthole by pressing a lever, they are rewarded with a drink of water. That's a big deal for the gerbils, who hail from the deserts of Mongolia. If they make a wrong choice, the portholes slam shut...