Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Today, except at a few specially equipped fields like London's Heathrow Airport, such daring Category III, "zero ceiling, zero visibility" landings are not possible. Aviation experts agree, though, that in a decade or two all major airports will be served by standardized electronic wizardry that will make landings in the thickest fog as safe and happy as the touchdown of a Piper Cub on a balmy April day. The new device, known as the Microwave Landing System (MLS) is also expected to help unsnarl the aerial traffic that often clogs the skies above major airports today...
...makes a Hoffa, and no historical insight into how the American labor movement so quickly deteriorated into self-serving materialism. That is perhaps excusable; what can you expect from people who not only were not present at the creation, but also never brush up against the modern working man except when they take their Mercedes in for repair...
...limited resonance; it is the day on which James Dean, the sometime teen-age movie idol and potential rival to Brando, died in an auto accident. This movie, which is about how the news of his untimely demise affected a college student and his friends, has even less resonance-except, perhaps, as the most ridiculously bad movie in recent memory...
...tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 135 lbs.) playmaker at midfield for the Tulsa Roughnecks. The new American kids do not stand in awe of most of the Europeans. Says 20-year-old Gary Etherington, a Cosmos forward: "I don't see that much difference between us and them, except for the big stars." And Big Star Chinaglia is a fan of the young Americans: "They improve every year...
...experienced, not merely heard or read, to be felt. The three narrators of the show, Victoria E. Allan '80, Martina N. Miller '79 and Andrea Robinson '81, are rather indistinguishable; each basically recites a series of memorized speeches. There is little attempt at dialogue or acting of any sort, except for a few perfunctory hand gestures. The show uses no sets, props or costumes...