Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone . . . You'll probably spin." And as the B70 did wind into a flat spin: "Bail out." Then: "One capsule has ejected, I don't know which one." Seconds later: "It's the left capsule. Al...
Missing Helmet. Al White had indeed managed to escape in an ejection capsule that parachuted him to earth, where he walked away with only bruises. But his copilot, Air Force Major Carl S. Cross, 40, a Viet Nam veteran who was making his first checkout flight in the craft, inexplicably failed to get out. Down from 25,000 ft., followed by Cotton's T-38, the giant bomber plummeted like a felled eagle. It smashed belly-down into the Mojave Desert, exploding into a thousand pieces. The long, proud neck was broken off and hurled 50 yds.; the heat...
...Financial Suicide." Untried rookies collected up to $600,000 in bonuses-infuriating established stars, who began playing out their options so they could jump to the other league for more money. "What can you do," asked A.F.L. Commissioner Al Davis, "when a kid who doesn't know beans about pro football but makes twice as much money as you do tells you to go to hell?" Club owners began to panic. "We were getting near financial suicide," says N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle. And fans grew disgusted. "The whole sport," says Rozelle, "was beginning to look pretty shabby...
...University Symposium, "Taste and the Contemporary Arts." Stanley L, Cavell, moderator, with William Al...
...routine frills as in-flight movies and nine-channel stereo, the planes feature stewardesses in Chanel-designed uniforms, dinners from Manhattan's "21" Club. With that and a $2,000,000 advertising campaign in the U.S., Olympic hopes to win away from TWA and Israel's El Al, its only competitors on the New York-Athens run, at least 30% of the 115,000 Americans who will fly direct to Greece during the next 12 months, boost profits from...