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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wide-bodied jetliner had arrived lightly loaded at Paris' Orly Airport from Istanbul, en route to London. When it departed, Flight 905 was nearly full, largely because of a British Airways strike, which caused 216 additional passengers to be put on the ill-fated craft. When the plane took off for the 60-minute flight to Britain's Heathrow Airport, the manifest listed some 200 Britons, 48 Japanese, 42 Turks, a sprinkling of other nationalities and 22 Americans, including Wayne Wilcox, cultural attache of the U.S. embassy in London, his wife and the two eldest of their four...
...officials, mindful of the fact that a number of antigovernment terrorists had been arrested near Paris last December, were convinced that "an explosion" had occurred. Investigators from the U.S., France and Britain, however, were struck by similarities to an American Airlines DC-10 mishap in June 1972. That plane, en route from Buffalo to Detroit, suffered major damage when a cargo hatch blew off at 11,750 ft. The resulting rapid decompression buckled the cabin floor, thus disrupting control cables. The crew was able to land the plane at Detroit with only a few minor injuries...
...junior high school students took to their heels in ever greater numbers. In Chicago, three boys with perfect timing streaked their high school as the student body rose for the morning national anthem. An adult male streaker whipped up and down the aisles of a Pan American jumbo jet en route from London to New York. Senior Citizen Virgil Cleves, 67, was arrested in Lima, Ohio, for a bare stroll in the public square with equally bare Wanda Gray, 46. He was asking equal time for "snailing," he said, since he was too old to streak. In London...
...been long enough for the population to lose its high degree of fundamental industriousness (which is higher than ours today), its tenacity and submissiveness. And it is firmly in the grip of a totalitarian system no whit less vigilant than ours. Its army and population will not surrender en masse with Western good sense, even when surrounded and beaten. Every soldier and every civilian will fight to the last bullet, the last breath...
...Crimson aqua-machine won all but two events and captured all of the second places en route to handing Yale its worst defeat in history...