Word: ens
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Only a few days earlier, a similar drama had been enacted in the Caribbean skies. A Venezuelan Aeropostal airliner, en route from Caracas to Curaçao with 87 passengers and crew aboard, was hijacked by self-proclaimed Haitian Rebel Hilertaut Dominique and his Dominican accomplice Felix Segundo Castillo. Armed with gasoline and pistols, the two forced the pilot to fly the plane first to Trinidad, then to Aruba, and finally to Cura...
...opposite directions over the same short stretch of track, carefully diverted from disaster by red and green signals. Last week one such routine maneuver went tragically awry. Amtrak's New England Zip, heading from Washington, D.C., to Boston, rammed head-on into another Amtrak train, the Shoreliner, en route from Boston to New York City, on a trestle 80 ft. above a shopping district in Queens, N.Y. The crash left Spanish Diplomat Enrique Gilarranz dead and 125 other passengers injured. When an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck at a grade crossing in South Carolina three days later, killing...
...promise much. It had long been urged not only as a matter of women's rights but as a purification of the political system. Its supporters claimed that women, because of their supposedly higher nature, would vote for measures humane and virtuous, and that they would do so en masse. "The civilization of the world is saved," gushed Democratic Presidential Nominee James Cox in 1920. "The mothers of America will stay the hand...
...atmospheric pressure falls in the Central Valley to the east of the city, these formations are sucked inland. Since San Francisco Bay is the only sea-level passage through Northern California's coastal mountain chain, the cool ocean air carrying the fog funnels into the city en route to the valley. The fog's swirls and twirls produce "microclimates," neighborhood-to-neighborhood variations in sunlight and temperature...
...athletic body, the Interna tional Olympic Committee has instituted a testing system that seems almost certain to catch anyone who aims at getting a medal with the aid of a pill or a needle. Among the targets of the tests: amphetamines and, possibly the most dangerous drugs ever tak en by athletes, anabolic steroids...