Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer. But as TIME'S former West Af rica correspondent, Ungeheuer was fortunate to find some old beerdrinking buddies among customs officials at Lagos airport to help him past the red tape and get him on a flight to Enugu, former capital of the Eastern Region, for an eyewitness report of relief operations. also had valuable background files from TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold and Ottawa Bureau Chief Alan Grossman. During two years in West Africa, Grossman covered the Ibo massacres that led to the present civil war. Among his more vivid memories...
...Come home. And from every corner of Nigeria, loaded down with what possessions they could salvage, the Ibo brethren came. They piled into mammy wagons, crowded into railroad coaches, mounted bicycles or simply walked, carrying their belongings on their heads. Within a few months, the great majority of non-Eastern Ibos had returned. With the living came the dead as well. Some parents arrived with the heads of their murdered children in baskets...
...American Medical Association journal's psychiatric report claiming that sexual roles are "being reversed," Packard says that "many young males not only feel their adequacy threatened, but are confused as to what the modern world expects of them." He found support for this analysis at an Eastern women's college, where a girl revealed that "most of the men I have dated in the past year have made overtures at going all the way but are not disappointed if you refuse...
Sponsoring the seven-week experiment is Eastern Air Lines, which started the hourly shuttle service on the Boston-New York-Washington run 7½ years ago and carried 3.3 million passengers along that route last year. Eastern, as well as federal aviation agencies, hopes the testing will lead to a new form of short-range transportation. "Door-to-door" flights from small airports inside or on the edge of cities would save time and would not interfere with long-and medium-haul operations...
...STOL and V/-STOL (for vertical short takeoff and landing) airplanes have been designed and flown in wind tunnels around the world. Only a few have gone into production, and none has shown as much promise as the McDonnell Douglas 188, priced at about $4,000,000, on which Eastern Air Lines is pinning its hopes. The plane, developed by the French Breguet works and originally called Breguet 941, was renamed by its U.S. licensee, the St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas Corp. For the tests, the 188 is being loaded with the latest in electronic gadgets, notably Decca-Omnitrac navigation...