Word: compartmentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
The disease spread to Nosseck's daughter Debbie, 20, an otherwise typical California girl: "I don't do much. I just swim, watch TV, see my friends." But Debbie plunged $4,000 into a 1958 Triumph 3 she had picked up for $75. "It's got a...
Most reject the Barbie-doll stereotypical model of woman as staple-naveled Playmate or smiling airline stewardess. Marilyn Goldstein of the Miami Herald caught the feeling well when she wrote about the National Airlines' celebrated "Fly me" advertising campaign: "If God meant men to 'Fly Cheryl,' he...