Word: crews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predawn darkness, Israeli naval officers spotted the rubber dinghy heading south toward the northern Israeli resort town of Nahariya. Ducking fire, the craft made for the Lebanese shore near the border, where the crew leaped onto the limestone rocks, scrambled to the cliffs above and deployed for battle. As illumination flares from Israeli helicopters lit up the area, the would-be invaders attacked Israeli troops with Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. When the shooting ended three hours later, two Israeli soldiers were dead and nine wounded. The bodies of four terrorists, one of them clad...
...Louis in 1910 and chugged over a field at 50 ft., waving his fedora. You could pick up a couple of those planes from Orville and Wilbur Wright in Dayton for about $10,000. The price of the 747s, which ultimately will come close to $300 < million including crew training, support units and spare parts, is gargantuan even when compared with the famous Boeing 707s introduced by Ike and raised to sad splendor by Kennedy and Nixon. A pair cost about $15 million...
Planning to major in biology at Harvard, Colfax says he also hopes to row lightweight crew. Accordingly, he is learning how to swim this summer. so he can pass the swim test...
...three-quarters of a mile from where the hydrogen-filled dirigible Hindenburg exploded into flames in 1937, killing 36, an experimental airship known as the Heli-Stat apparently lost power, crashed and burned during a test flight at the U.S. Naval Air Engineering Center. One of the five civilian crew members was killed...
Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 will speak to about 450 invited guests about his days as an undergraduate when he rowed crew and sang for the Harvard Glee Club. In addition, President Derek C. Bok and the master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge--which John Harvard attended--will address the dinner guests, said Cristina V. Coletta '87, co-chairman of the celebration...