Word: dover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...likes of Roddy McDowell, Jane Powell, Mike Nichols and Lillian Gish. "She is herself an occasion," exclaimed longtime Friend McDowell, "a bona fide movie star, a national treasure." To prove that point, 70 minutes of highlights from 23 of her films were shown, starting with The White Cliffs of Dover (made when she was twelve), finishing with Between Friends (made three years ago). Afterward the guest of honor said, "I hate to watch myself on the screen, so I've been dying." But it was the adoring Manhattan audience of 2,700 that was knocked dead...
Each casket, bearing the remains of one of Challenger's crew, was accompanied by an astronaut. Top officials of NASA, the space agency whose reputation has been badly tarnished by the disaster, also boarded the giant C- 141 en route to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. It was Dover that received the bodies of the 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, killed in Beirut in 1983 and the 248 U.S. Army Airborne victims of last year's plane crash in Gander, Newfoundland...
...vehicle and driver) and single- deckers for trucks. France Manche officials claim that an entire train could be loaded in only ten minutes. The crossing will take 30 minutes, vs. 75 minutes for ferries and 35 minutes for Hovercraft now plying the shortest (21- mile) cross-Channel route, from Dover to Calais. If France's high-speed TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse) network is extended to the Channel coast, the Paris-London train journey will take 3 3/4 hours, half the average time of the current trip by rail and boat...
...helped. Soon the area was eerily dark except for the colored lights and searching flashlights of the workers, whose main duty was to retrieve bodies. The victims were placed on plastic sheets in neat rows in a nearby hangar. Their bodies were to be flown this week to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where forensic experts would undertake the difficult chore of establishing firm identifications...
...first break in the case came, oddly, in Dover, Ark., in the July arrest of a publisher who was charged with counterfeiting adoption documents. Then last week the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service sprang a trap on a mother-daughter team described as the key dealers in a baby-smuggling ring that may have sold as many as 150 infants to American couples in the past two years. Juanita Leyva-Vargas, 52, and her daughter Melinda, 25, were arrested in San Diego after they handed a five-day-old Mexican infant to Phil and Linda Phillips of Kalama, Wash. Authorities...