Word: departing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael Rogers, a student headed back to Georgia's Oglethorpe College, the ordeal began shortly after 10 a.m. Sunday, when he telephoned Eastern Airlines to check on its 11:25 a.m. flight to Atlanta. Assured that the flight would depart with "a slight delay despite the snow," Michael drove to the airport and checked into the Eastern terminal at 11 a.m.-only to discover that the flight had been canceled. He was still there 56 hours later. Thousands of other travelers were similarly misled by the airlines, which, out of either optimism or greed, led them to believe that...
...stamped "Jew" in red ink. Jobs and passports are heavily restricted: on the rare occasions that a Jew is permitted to leave the country, he must leave a $5,000 deposit refundable upon his return. For many, it is a small enough price to pay for the opportunity to depart...
...hiring of Boyd suggests, Johnson has not hesitated to depart from the railroad's tradition of promoting from within. Boyd, the former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, was an able and dedicated administrator of the $6 billion-a-year Transportation Department. But he was not too adept in dealing with Congress, and that stymied his efforts to bring the Maritime Administration under the department's jurisdiction and to relieve overburdened airports. In Boyd, the Illinois Central may also be getting some trouble; conflict-of-interest questions have been raised about the Department of Transportation's grant...
...Priests and nuns will abandon their vocations in increasing numbers. "It has now become quite easy to leave the religious life, in the sense that there are relatively few social sanctions imposed on those who depart; on the contrary, of ten they persuade themselves that they are heroes...
Under orders to prevent bloodshed if possible, they ordered the stunned airport crowd away, using bullhorns and speaking in English and Arabic. Then they methodically went from plane to plane-one was a Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 just about to depart for Saudi Arabia-at gunpoint ordering passengers to disembark, then planting explosives under the wings. One after another, the aircraft were blasted into fiery mangled metal. For good measure, the commandos also set fire to hangars and oil-storage tanks...