Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is little that a lawman could do to prevent plane piracy without increasing the already considerable danger to all on board. In any case, putting marshals aboard the hundreds of flights daily that might be skyjacked would be prohibitively costly. The wildest potential remedies include a trap door that would drop the skyjacker into the blue yonder at the push of a button, or hidden circuits that would stun him with an electric shock. But a passenger or stewardess could be inadvertently zapped as readily as the culprit...
...time was wasted settling in, however, and the transfer of tenancy was even smoother than the transition of power. Within three hours-from the minute the Johnsons stepped out the door until the Nixons stepped in-almost all traces of the previous occupants had disappeared. The Johnsons' clothes and personal effects were whisked away; walls were cleaned to remove the telltale rectangles that showed where the predecessors' favorite pictures had hung. Fresh flowers were placed in every room, books were placed on bedside tables, and fires were lighted in every fireplace...
...Overnight Delay. A host of remedies, some of them far out, have been proposed. None of them are foolproof. Locking the cockpit door is a usual precaution, but a gunman can still force a stewardess to relay orders to the pilot by intercom. The International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations plans a resolution boycotting flights to any country that fails to release a skyjacked plane within 48 hours, but of the airlines flying to Cuba, only Mexicana, Iberia and Air Canada have I.F.A.L.P.A. pilots. In any case, the Cubans have so far been careful to free skyjacked planes...
...grateful governments. Francisco Alarcon Cano, whose private school was shuttered for six weeks because a bomb fragment landed on his patio, sought $733 in lost tuition. He got nothing. "We may have made a mistake," says a 16th Air Force officer of the schoolmaster's case. "But the door is always open if he wants to come back." The point that escapes the Americans is that Alarcon, and others like him, will not come back. When the Air Force questioned what Alarcon considered an eminently reasonable claim, it might as well have questioned his honor...
...Piano Concerto in D Major, which Serkin was to play with the Philadelphians in Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall the following evening. Could Johansen fill in? Johansen has never even heard the piece, a little-known transcription by Beethoven of his only violin concerto. He dashes next door to the music library, glances at the score, agrees to do it. What he does not know is that twelve other pianists have already declined...