Word: downs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once inside the cockpit, Minichiello held the carbine at the flight engineer's head and ordered Pilot Cook to head for New York. Cook laconically radioed the FAA control center in Oakland: "Rerouting to change to New York on account of hijacking." FBI agents hastened to Kennedy Airport, but...
At issue was a question that may yet haunt other Arab governments as the guerrillas grow stronger or bolder: Where, and in what numbers, should the fedayeen be allowed to operate in their "war to the death" against Israel? Jordan's King Hussein confronted the guerrillas over the issue...
Word flashed out of Manila that Charles A. Lindbergh, flying a little Piper L5, was overdue and presumed down near Kawayan, 170 miles northeast of Manila. Instantly, rescue craft took off along his track, searching for wreckage. Happily, it was a false alarm. The 67-year-old Lindbergh, who now...
The 15-year-old Yale freshman wanted to study archaeology, but his father thought engineering was a more promising profession. "I couldn't stand engineering," recalls Caltech's Professor Murray Gell-Mann, the former child prodigy, "so I put down the closest thing, physics." It was a happy...
I start by driving up the shore from Santa Monica to Malibu just because I like the drive. That area, along the shore, is my idea of California. It has the free impermanence of the place. The beach houses stand wall to wall on the sand, weather-beaten dwellings right...