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Aboard the President's plane, the eight-man press pool sits in a rear compartment behind a closed door. No reporter may wander forward without a rare and specific invitation from Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. Even then, it is only for a quick "photo opportunity" to see the...
That point was illustrated when a National Airlines 727 braked to a halt at Miami Airport while taxiing for takeoff to Washington. The captain told four men in the first-class compartment that they would have to either surrender their hand luggage or get off the plane. The reason: their...
The explosion was caused by a small time bomb hidden in a cassette player carried in the luggage compartment. The bomb had been timed to go off half an hour after takeoff, when the plane normally would have been flying in the rarefied atmosphere of 21,000 ft. The fact...
Hashan saw them to the airport, where the girls submitted to El Al's customarily tight security. Zaid and Hashan had told them not to declare the cassette as a gift because they would then have to pay a heavy tax. When security men asked them if they were...
Looking for alternatives. Chemist Philip C. Symons, director of the Udylite Co.'s energy development lab, turned to a combination of inexpensive and readily available substances: zinc and chlorine. Other experimenters-notably General Motors' Allison Division -have also built batteries using chlorine and are confident that such batteries...