Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory to luck. "Leonard," he said, "could have outrun me any time." But the baby-faced 34-year-old from Albuquerque had skill and daring going for him too. Unser's older brother Jerry was killed during a practice run at Indy in 1959; his younger brother Al narrowly escaped injury when he lost two wheels and slammed into the wall on the 41st lap of last week's race. Worried about Al, plagued by a broken transmission that forced him to stay in high gear and therefore cost him seconds accelerating away from each pit stop, Bobby...
This week El Al President Mordechai Ben-Ari is expected in Seattle to sign up for a second Boeing 747 jumbo jet. He already has options for two of their earliest SST's to be built, and hopes for permission to extend El Al's service to Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, in addition to New York...
...million of their cost. Additional planes-two of them on lease-help out with the busy schedule: eleven weekly flights to New York, one to Johannesburg, plus others to 17 European cities. With its biggest expansion yet under way-the $90 million move into the jumbo jets-El Al expects to carry a million passengers...
...early years, its secondhand, U.S.-built C46 Commandos and Skymasters used to be outfitted with Cuban colors and repainted "Near East Airlines" overnight in order to evacuate 140,000 stranded Jews from Arab lands. More recently, during last summer's short but savage war, 60% of El Al crews were mobilized, while the rest moved military cargoes from Europe to Israel. "El Al is not only a national airline," explains President Ben-Ari, a scarred veteran of the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. "It is a national instrument in time of emergency...
Obeying Jewish religious laws means added expense. El Al loses 60 days a year by not operating in or out of Tel Aviv on Sabbath and religious holidays. Each plane must carry 400 lbs. of additional pots and plates for separate meat and dairy dishes. Soon, even a Torah scroll may be carried by each El Al plane. "We enjoy our Jewish-ness," says an airline official in Tel Aviv. "We are going to make the most...