Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passengers and a crew of 18, had climbed to 22,000 ft. over the Pacific. As the flight attendants were preparing to roll out the beverage carts, passengers in the forward section heard a hissing noise. Within seconds came a loud thump of bursting metal and a roar of cold air. "It was like a dream," said passenger Gary Garber later. "A section of the plane wasn't there any longer...
...place was an immense hole, open to the cold night sky. A 10 ft.-by-40 ft. section of the right forward fuselage had simply blown away, and nine passengers who had been seated in three rows in the business-class section were swept out to their deaths...
...contrast in character is too great. Even the extraordinary physical and mental strengths that each possesses are of sharply divergent kinds. Luce is a big, powerful, easygoing soul who for several years ran her own restaurant in Seattle. When the restaurant began to consume her life, she quit cold and took a job as a bicycle messenger. With nothing much in the way of climbing credentials, she volunteered for the Everest trip. "I've always wanted to do adventures," she says with a big grin...
...cameras rolling, and then they will do a similar tour in the U.S. next year. The Soviets are enthusiastic, says Luce. Only one element is still uncertain. Right the first time. So it is back, with smile and mandolin, to the powerful- legs, powerful-suits scene. Back to those cold, cold phone calls to the vice president for sales and aggrandizement of Monstrocorp, or at least his secretary: "Have I got a marketing opportunity...
...steady, cold drizzle fell on the austere black hearse as it moved slowly off the grounds of the Imperial Palace and onto the streets of Tokyo. Thousands of Japanese watched its silent passage, some bowing, some weeping. At Shinjuku Gyoen, an imperial garden, the black-painted palanquin was hoisted by 51 members of the Imperial Guard. Above, silk curtains draped the coffin made of Japanese cypress. Within rested the body of Hirohito, the reluctant monarch who on Jan. 7, at 87, succumbed to cancer after occupying the Japanese throne for 62 years...