Word: bakersfeld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history has been raging over the airport for three days. The longest and widest runway is blocked by a mired Boeing 707. A traffic controller is suicidally depressed. And a Rome-bound flight lifts off with a man carrying a bomb in his briefcase. How Airport Manager Mel Bakersfeld and a score of other characters cope provides the suspense of this obvious but well-programmed novel. Among the nuggets Hailey might better have left unreported is a chillingly explicit vignette on How to Build a Bomb with materials available in hardware stores for "less than five dollars...
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