Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Donnell, charged at a congressional hearing that the FAA has been dangerously delaying the use of a practical system for automatically warning pilots of a possible collision. The need for such a device has been conceded by most aviation experts for years; yet none are in general use. Asked Eastern Air Lines Pilot Jack Howell: "I wonder how many more San Diegos we will have before we get an efficient system...
Officials in the eastern sector said more than two-thirds of the 600,000 Christians here have fled to the mountains or the country. The remainder, mostly poorer residents, have stayed behind to support the militia or to protect their property from looting...
...Cross workers said the threats of famine and death from thirst are becoming increasingly more serious because the Syrians have cut off all routes of supply to the eastern sector...
...American League Eastern Division race ended the only way it should have ended yesterday, with "baseball's Athens and Sparta" meeting at the Pass at Fenway to stage the ultimate epic and write a decisive final chapter to a title and a season that were undecided throughout...
Most of the "seven sisters" colleges have usually had big brothers at their helm. But when Elizabeth Kennan, a medieval scholar, is inaugurated as president of Mt. Holyoke on Oct. 7, all seven prestigious Eastern schools will be headed by women presidents for the first time in their history. "There was a certain feeling of elation among us that the colleges established 100 years ago to produce women leaders are at last led by women leaders," said Barbara Newell, president of Wellesley, when the seven met in Cambridge, Mass., to celebrate Radcliffe's centennial. Mary Patterson McPherson, the newly...