Word: clippers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average Boy Scout troop would seem like a bunch of Bowery bums. The warden (Patrick McGoohan), of course, is a sadistic horror. He speaks in malevolent epigrams ("Some are never destined to leave Alcatraz - alive") and carries on what appears to be a kinky relationship with his pocket nail clipper...
...Anderson writes in introducing this shameless horn-blower of a book. After those 11 years, you feel like blowing your horn; bask in the hubris, regreet old friends. Watch Babe Ruth's astonishing 60 home runs in 1927, and Roger "Bwana" Maris's 61 in '61; follow the Yankee Clipper through his 56 game hitting streak; trace a young Mickey Mantle's blasts till they go out of sight while Manager Casey Stengel, at your elbow, credits the incredible distance of the shot to the "stratmosphere" in Arizona...
...almost the whole Peking Philharmonic showed up at the airport to say goodbye with gifts and mementos. Several private farewells ended in tears. Ozawa led his troops onto the 747. The final glimpse of the Americans must have made the Peking players smile. Pan Am printed the name CHINA CLIPPER on the sides in Chinese characters but, language misunderstandings being what they are, the sign read CHINA SCISSORS...
Ever since the first Yankee clipper set sail for Canton in 1784, China has held a compelling fascination for Americans. Traders and other early visitors to the Celestial Kingdom returned home with tales of teeming millions, exotic landscapes, seemingly outlandish manners and morals. Even today some Americans have a vision of China that is a fanciful montage of antithetical images: Confucius and Kung Fu; Wellesley-educated Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Mao's "sinister" widow Chiang Ch'ing; highborn ladies tiptoeing painfully on bound feet and unisex masses marching in bulky Mao jackets; delicately misty watercolors and propaganda...
...rolling KLM jet, the flight engineer twice asked, "Is he [Pan Am] not clear then?" Emphatically, Veldhuizen replied, "Yes." His KLM plane hurtled down the runway. Suddenly the Pan Am 747 loomed ahead. It was too late: the KLM jumbo smashed into the Clipper...