Word: crew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quincy House Superintendent Ronald Levesque said he was working in his office when he heard smoke detectors buzzing and saw a large fire in the room's window. Grabbing fire extinguishers as he ran, Levesque climbed the stairs and was joined by maintenance crew chief Manuel DaSilva...
...battle in the sky. It was unbelievable." So said Jordanian Businessman Salim Dado after surviving a terrifying ordeal aboard an Iraqi jetliner on Christmas Day. According to officials in Saudi Arabia, where the plane subsequently crashed, 62 of the 107 passengers and crew members on the stricken craft were not so lucky: they died in the crash, and about 20 others were injured, in one of the worst hijacking disasters on record...
...since 1851, the longest winning streak in sport. America II's loss last week was the final disappointment in a $15 million, three-year drive to recapture the Cup. As a stunned Skipper John Kolius, 35, piloted America II back to its slip after the race with New Zealand, crew members wept. "How would you feel," asked Kolius, "if you called into work tomorrow morning and it wasn't there...
...leader, New Zealand, has amassed 198 points out of a possible 199; it will sail a best-ofseven series against fourth-place French Kiss (129 points), named after its sponsor, Kis, a French manufacturer of photographic equipment. Kiss has been a surprise, surviving with a brash young crew and steady sailing. Second-place Stars & Stripes (154 points), skippered by Dennis Conner, who lost the Cup in '83 and is determined to get it back, will battle USA (139 points), a radical boat from San Francisco's St. Francis Yacht Club skippered by a wily veteran, Tom Blackaller...
...fever has reportedly driven up the price of local shoreline property by 30%. New Zealand has done equally well in both light and heavy weather. The key to the boat's success is its fiber-glass hull, which helps eliminate pitching in the Fremantle chop. The Kiwi crew improves with each race. "A month ago we might have said we were scoring 90 out of 100," says confident Skipper Chris Dickson, 25. "Now I think there's 110 points available...