Word: crews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everything was normal at the start of Korean Air Lines Flight 902, which left Paris one afternoon last week on the polar route to Seoul with 110 passengers and crew members aboard. Under a veteran pilot, Captain Kim Chang Kyu, 46, the Boeing 707 followed a normal course over the North Sea and Greenland and headed toward Canada's Ellesmere Island on its 8,455-mile run. But then, about 3½ hours away from a refueling stop at Anchorage, Alaska, Captain Kim did something extraordinary: he made a 180° turn back toward Europe...
...neither the Americans nor the Russians seemed eager to make too much of the incident. Next day the Soviet government, which does not have diplomatic relations with Seoul, invited the U.S. to send a civil airliner to Murmansk to pick up the Korean plane's passengers and crew...
...jetliner was chartered, flew to Murmansk and brought out to Helsinki the bodies of the two passengers who died in the incident and the surviving crew and passengers, except for the ill-fated flight's captain and navigator. Those two the Russians detained for further questioning on why the plane had ventured so far off course and into Soviet airspace. The Kola Peninsula is a highly sensitive military area for the Soviet Union. Not only is Murmansk the home port for Russia's northern fleet, but there are an estimated 900,000 soldiers and airmen based...
EVEN MORE ANNOYING, the orations themselves give the impression that today, finally, in the merged-non-merged '70s, all is well at fair Harvard. We are proudly told of the fact that Radcliffe crew is still a Radcliffe, not a Harvard, team and that "equal-access" admissions has forever solved the perennial problem of the Harvard sex ratio. Ignored are the larger problems of equal funding for women's athletic teams and minority recruitment reluctance. One almost feels that the show was designed with nostalgic alumni in mind...
That's what master chef John Higginson did to his lightweight crew squad, and the result--a nine second basting of Navy in the Haines Cup--was just what the Crimson faithful ordered for a scrumptious Saturday morning along the banks of the Charles...