Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...packed with intricate warning devices?one now sounds the alarm if the proper wing flaps are not extended on takeoff?and every major control system has backups in case it should fail. Pilots wax eloquent about the aircraft they fondly call "Fat Albert." Says one Delta captain: "Old Albert is straightforward and honest on the ground and in the air. I've got about 200,000 Ibs. of thrust on four little levers. You've got to be careful because you can blow a hangar off the ground. Another thing, you've got 350 tons of momentum when...
...middle of the tranquil '70s, women were preparing to bring about upheaval in the sports world. Perhaps we men have not paid attention to the women's activities because they have not yet had major repercussions. But they are coming. Marquette is still a sure victor over Delta State, but women's athletics are on the rise...
...those weekends which are becoming increasingly infrequent in the sports world. Everyone that was supposed to win did. Delta State took its third straight women's basketball championship, Johnny Petraglia won his tenth pro bowling title. Seattle Slew won his fifth consecutive stakes race and the University of Southern California won the NCAA swimming crown...
Because she is at Harvard, an Ivy League institution dedicated foremost to academics, Kleinfelder will probably never have the "do-it-all" superstars that go to teams like Delta State or Immaculata, two of the giants of women's basketball...
Cool Relations. Party reform will hardly satisfy Southerners victimized by a draconian plan to resettle 4 million city dwellers in "new economic zones" in the Mekong Delta. According to a new five-year plan, Southerners from the cities will be recruited to reclaim 1 million hectares of rice land and to increase fish and lumber production...