Word: boston
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Security measures were tight. Kissinger's corrected galleys were hand-carried to New York from the publisher, Little, Brown, in Boston, and stored in a vault at the Chase Manhattan Bank. They were brought by courier to Kriss, who had a 24-in. safe installed in his office for the occasion. Later, he regretted having turned down an 84-in. model when the excerpt drafts and numerous revisions began to bury the office furniture. Photocopying the work, a project that overheated several office machines, had to be done on weekends, when witnesses were scarce. "At home," Kriss adds...
...Canada incident could easily have turned into a tragedy. Flight 680, with 43 people aboard, was 60 miles out of Boston's Logan Airport on its way to Nova Scotia and had just reached its cruising altitude of 25,000 ft. when, as Passenger Betty Martin recalled, "We heard what sounded like a bomb. You could see the sky. We were all praying...
...Canada had increased its inspections, but its mechanics overlooked the crack in the Boston plane until they re-examined old X rays of the bulkhead after the accident. Last week the FAA ordered U.S. carriers to make a special inspection of their...
These were all part of the preparations for Pope John Paul's historic, seven-day American tour, which will begin with his arrival in Boston next Monday. He will celebrate Mass at each major stop -Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Des Moines, Chicago and Washington-and visit St. Patrick's Church in the tiny farm town of Cumming, Iowa. Along the way, John Paul will address seminarians and school students, visit with cardinals and civic dignitaries and attend a huge reception on the White House lawn that threatens to turn into a political rally: the President's invited...
Besides logistical problems, officials in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington had to contend with lawsuits brought by civil libertarians, abortion advocates and atheists, including Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who won the Supreme Court ruling in 1963 that banned prayer from public schools. Opponents argued that public spending on the platforms constructed for the Pope's Masses, or even the use of public land, would violate the Constitution's separation of church and state. Complained Boston Plaintiff Bill Baird: "What do you think would happen if the Ayatullah Khomeini were coming to Boston Common to conduct a Muslim service...