Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zambezi escarpment, a lumbering Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner took off from Kariba on a flight to Salisbury. Ten minutes later the pilot, John Hood, 36, reported that he had lost control of his starboard engines. "We're going in," he radioed. In a few moments, his craft crashed into the thick bushland of the Whamira Hills...
...world has seldom seen such huge international manufacturing alliances as planemakers are now forging. Their aims: to win access to the latest technology, help spread the cost of developing new planes and, not least, to counter nationalistic objections to government airlines buying "foreign" craft. The diplomacy involved can get both complex and testy, as witness the three-cornered negotiations from which Boeing last week came out a big first-round winner...
...strolled about, inspecting four damaged landing craft and looking for the 24th Division's command post, with the diminutive [Carlos] Romulo skipping to catch up, [General George] Kenney heard the General murmur to himself: 'This is what I dreamed about.' Kenney thought it was more like a nightmare. He could hear the taunts of enemy soldiers, speaking that broken English which was so familiar to soldiers and Marines in the Pacific: 'Surrender, all is resistless!' and 'How are your machine guns feeling today?' and 'F.D.R. eat shit...
...black hole. It is the point of no return that scientists call the black hole's "event horizon." Anything crossing this border would be stretched spaghetti-thin, pulverized by gravitational tidal forces, and sucked into the singularity. To an observer outside?say an astronaut watching his abandoned craft plunge into the black hole?the result would be different. Because of relativistic effects, the spacecraft would appear to move ever more slowly, and closer and closer to the event horizon, without ever reaching...
Bates naturally dominates, but the rest of the cast also demonstrates the high competence of craft we have come to expect from "Masterpiece Theater...