Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In that field, which was an abandoned private airport immediately north of the world's busiest terminal, 271 people had died. They had crashed to earth in an American Airlines DC-10, which had taken off from O'Hare at 3 p.m. on a four-hour, nonstop flight...
The crash was the worst in U.S. aviation history. The worst previous accident occurred eight months ago when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 collided with a private aircraft near the San Diego airport. That collision killed 144 people. Worldwide, the toll had been exceeded only in the collision of...
HEADLINE of the month: "And they were all dead." The Boston Herald-American's five-column front-page headline over a five-column picture and story on the American Airlines crash Friday in Chicago.
Charles W. Cheng of Los Angeles, an educator and civil rights activist who was involved in the movement to desegregate Boston public schools, was among those killed in Friday's crash of the American Airlines DC-10 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. He was 42 years old.
When the issue comes to public conflict it is customarily fought out in the wrong terms: an attempt to link one specific act of real-life violence to one specific act of TV violence. About the best documented instance, from the viewpoint of anti-TV forces, occurred in 1966 when...