Word: behemoths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bargain $110 per person, including hotels, meals and guides for a week, groups of 40 tourists will gambol through mechanized mine shafts, mephitic chemical plants and the computer-guided rollers of Krupp's behemoth steel mill in Essen. Lest romance wilt amid the furnaces, adventurers will be whisked away for interludes at centuries-old castles above the once-green valley. Club Med officials hardly need run scared. Still, some 5,000 tourists have signed up to see the Ruhr...
...look to next Tuesday's match with UMass, with linebacker Beling matching up with behemoth defensive tackle Dennis Fenton, and the Eastern Championships at Syracuse in March to take his mind off the Bulldogs...
Designated E-4A, the $117 million Doomsday jet is a 231-ft.-long, 425-ton behemoth - the heaviest flying machine anywhere. It is a converted Boeing 747 that bulges and bristles with a mind-stunning array of electronic gadgetry designed to defend the plane and prevent interference with communications. It is also loaded with an equally dazzling array of high-and low-frequency communications devices. Capable of staying aloft for 72 hours, the plane can roam at low or very high altitudes, up to more than 45,000 ft. To keep in touch with U.S. submarines, the craft can unreel...
...behemoth is apparently part of a Soviet effort to develop long-distance, over-the-horizon radar. Its signal, which pulses ten times a second, is four times more powerful than the most potent civilian radio stations; sometimes it is augmented by a smaller transmitter near the Black Sea town of Nikolayev...
...Odell will not make much of an impact on the CIA behemoth if he continues his reluctance to deal with specifics. The media is unlikely to take notice of him for unspecific "wrongdoing" and "lies." If, on the other hand, he comes completely clean and goes "on the record" with the information he claims to possess about CIA indiscretions, he very well might make the waves he so fervently desires...