Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago it was designated Flight 191 and it took on its capacity load of 258 passengers and a crew of 13. Traffic was backed up at the airport, which averages some two takeoffs and landings per minute. Captain Walter H. Lux awaited clearance and was about eight minutes behind schedule as he got tower approval to roll down Runway 32-R (heading 320°, roughly northwest...
...while Spenkelink was serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery, he walked away from the minimum-security Slack Canyon Conservation Camp near Big Sur. Driving through Nebraska, he picked up a hitchhiker, Joe Szymankiewicz, 43, an Ohio parole violator who had spent 16 years behind bars for forgery, burglary, theft and other crimes. For several weeks they roamed the country, ending up on Feb. 3, 1973, in Room 4 of the Ponce de Leon Motel in Tallahassee. Next morning, a maid discovered Szymankiewicz dead in bed. He had been bludgeoned and shot twice...
...built Spenkelink admitted having killed his companion but insisted that he had acted in self-defense: the muscular, 230-lb. Szymankiewicz, said the defendant, had stolen $8,000 from him, forced him at gunpoint to perform fellatio and made him play Russian roulette. But the wounds were all from behind, and the jury took only 3½ hours to convict Spenkelink of murder and sentence him to death. His lawyers filed 22 appeals, claiming that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment, that it is unfairly applied more often to murderers of whites than of blacks and that...
...after the other, 18 Arab nations, along with the Palestine Liberation Organization and Iran, have rejected Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's signing of the peace treaty with Israel. The only country in the Arabian peninsula to remain solidly behind Sadat is Oman. Says Foreign Minister Qais Zawawi: "We do so out of the conviction that this treaty is the first step toward solving the problem of the Middle East and achieving a Palestinian solution. Even more, it is a realistic step toward improving our common regional security." But the trouble is, as a senior Western diplomat observes, "it would...
...facilities give Harvard the physical base to lure the top-echelon high school student-athlete in swimming, hockey, track and field, and (if one considers the amazing training and medical equipment on hand in renovated Dillon Field House) football. Basketball and other sports may not be far behind. How will the Faculty respond to this projected growth in athletics? Will it be supportive or, as in the 1950s, will it rebel and lower funds and emphasis...