Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alia is ten years old and on the verge of showing a profit for the first time; it survived its first decade on government subsidy. Cabin service is up to the standards of Western airlines. Pilots and their crews, once mostly foreigners, are now 80% Jordanian. They fly one 707, two 720s and two Caravelles-which will doubtless be sold to make room for two new 727s recently approved for purchase by the Jordanian Cabinet. The line's major customers are still Palestinians from round the world returning home for a visit and Moslems from Arab states and Black...
...modified 707 belonging to Lebanon's Middle East Airlines was 87 minutes out of Benghazi on its way to Beirut when a thin, popeyed, bushy-haired man in a green striped suit whipped a brace of pistols out of his belt, charged into the pilot's cabin and told Captain Adel Kawas: "I want to go to Israel...
During their long stroll, the astronauts worked four hours successfully erecting a second sunshade to protect Skylab's bare spot (cabin temperatures dropped as much as eight degrees into the low 70s). They also reloaded their solar-telescope array with fresh film and set up a micrometeorite-measuring experiment. Meanwhile, Skylab continued to be plagued by glitches. A coolant leak was discovered in one air-conditioning system, and suspected in another. A short circuit briefly troubled the telescope mount. Several external lights, intended for use during the space walk, failed to work, as did a video-tape recorder...
...black sophomores refused to have his head shaved, as every sophomore Bulldog in memory had. (It would take too long to grow back, he pleaded.) And no one was pleased when the ten blacks on the team, led by Walker, asked if they could live in a separate "Soul Cabin" at football camp. (This put Coach McFadden in the awkward position of having to, upon immediate arrival, assign living quarters, "This cabin for seniors, those two for sophomores and juniors, and that one in back...
...sophomore looked like a star, and the Soul Cabin became the social center for the whole team throughout the one week ordeal. An impassioned Walker later said in a speech, "We sweated together. We slept under the same roof. We know each other." Some strong bonds were forged during the week of conditioning in the Poconos and from those bonds came a successful season. When it was over, there were tears, speeches, exchanges of gifts, and pacts of lifelong friendship. The next fall, NP went undefeated again, and "The Best Damn Team" was largely forgotten...