Word: cabin
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...everyone is as active as Spitzer, though. For just $5 a year and light duties such as cleaning some of the club's equipment, members can check out any of the club's vast sporting gear and use the club's two cabins in Jaffrey and Jackson. N.H. Built in 1939 and 1949, respectively, by past club members, the cabins serve as starting points for many Harvard expeditions, as well as nearby escapes to beautiful and rustic simpicity Just an hour-and-a-half away, the Jaffrey cabin is nestled between lakes and hiking trails, while the Jackson cabin...
...World Airways DC-10 skidded off the runway at Logan International Airport and into Boston Harbor, the aircraft's nose section was sheared off like the tip of a roughly clipped cigar. Don Welsh, 25, a dental student at Tufts University, who was seated in the front cabin, suddenly found himself covered with spray and looking out at the harbor. Soon he and other passengers were pulling the flight crew out of the water. Welsh saw someone splashing ten or 20 yards to his left, well out of his reach. Then the person disappeared. Welsh told a fireman what...
...they saw that I was conscious, and that tears were on my face. I did not know what they were thinking. Then someone said: 'Pham, do you want to live?' And I said: 'Yes, of course I want to live.' So they untied me and took me into the cabin...
Seven years after he vanished while walking home from school in Merced, Calif., Steven Stayner, 14, suddenly reappeared. He told police that he had been held in a remote cabin by Kenneth Parnell for what amounted to half his lifetime.* The youngster was joyously reunited with his family, but as soon as his return was reported, a second trauma began. Within days, more than two dozen people called or turned up at the Stayner home, checks in hand, to buy rights to his unique story. Bewildered, the family turned to their attorney. He was unfamiliar with the new problems they...
Ehrlichman somewhat melodramatically recalls how the long Watergate ordeal affected him. Standing in the pilot's cabin aboard Air Force One on a trip with Nixon, Ehrlichman momentarily considered a quick solution: "I could end everyone's troubles by throwing myself against the controls, wedging myself between the pilot's control yoke and the pilot. We'd all be gone in about a minute and a half." Some of the unfortunate former officials portrayed in Witness to Power may wish that Ehrlichman had not dismissed the idea. -By Ed Magnuson