Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eastern Air Lines Flight 855 from Miami International Airport is normally a 30-minute pleasure hop to the resort of Nassau, some 180 miles away. But the trip became a brief waking nightmare for 162 passengers and ten crew members aboard Flight 855 last week. For 50 heart-stopping minutes, they faced possible disaster as their trijet L-1011 aircraft lost power in all three engines and fell almost four miles, to within 4,000 ft. of the Atlantic waves. As trembling passengers fumbled into their life jackets, Pilot Richard Boddy made an ominous announcement...
...attacked in two of the "Spart" letters that appeared in the May 9 edition of The Crimson. I felt it might be useful to explain why members of the democratic Left find the Spartacist Youth League so objectionable. Firstly, the Sparts are totalitarians, and secondly, they are bozos. A brief discussion with a Spart about the issue of Poland will convince anyone of their basic sympathy with totalitarianism. A consideration of their attempt to sabotage the Local 26 rally is symptomatic of the second characteristic. On the day before the rally, the Sparts distributed leaflets that attempted to link...
...elected to succeed Williams as head of the 1.7 million-member union last Thursday at an executive-board meeting in Arizona. An eighth-grade dropout, Presser began his career as a jukebox delivery boy. His late father, William ("Big Bill") Presser, a nationally known union leader who served two brief prison terms, helped young Jackie create Ohio Teamsters Local 507 in 1966. It now has over 5,000 members...
Diplomats in Peking generally agreed that China was not on the verge of "teaching Viet Nam a second lesson," as it had been threatening to do off and on since the four-week-long Sino-Vietnamese war of February and March 1979. At that time, China had justified its brief invasion of Viet Nam as a "lesson" designed to discourage the Vietnamese from engaging in any more troublemaking along the border. But for the past several weeks, the Chinese have been upset about Vietnamese attacks on Kampuchean refugee camps located along the border between Kampuchea and Thailand. The Chinese were...
...Frederick Ashton has done it again. In his new work, Varii Capricci, given its world premiere last week in New York City by London's Royal Ballet, Britain's leading choreographer, 78, has spun a fragile comic fable of misdirected lust, a brief encounter that demonstrates Ashton's continuing mastery of psychologically revealing nuance, even when the subject is a mere wisp. Set to a spunky scare by the late Sir William Walton and played out against a disarmingly evocative set by Artist David Hockney, Varii Capricci also revives one of ballet's most brilliant partnerships...