Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pilot Victor Grubbs, 56, who had 32 years experience, actually been directed by the tower to take an awkward, 135° backward exit onto Tenerife's ramp C-3 rather than use the more gently angled ramp C4? Grubbs was heading toward C-4 as he moved to get in position behind the KLM plane to make his own takeoff. If he had made the earlier turn, he might have been clear of the runway before the KLM 747 reached that exit point...
...reach their takeoff point. KLM confirmed its orders and proceeded. Pan Am followed at about 6 m.p.h. In good weather, 20 m.p.h. would be normal. As the two planes moved up the runway, KLM asked the tower to confirm that Pan Am would move off at the third exit ramp. The tower reply: "Affirmative. One, two, three. The third...
...required. Pan Am officials were later to explain that the crew considered C-l inactive because it was blocked by aircraft and assumed that the final turn was the "third intersection" the tower meant the plane to take. Pan Am was only about 475 ft. away from its safe exit when all hell broke loose. Captain Grubbs and First Officer Bragg saw lights blurred by fog on the runway ahead of them. They thought the lights were stationary. But the glows loomed larger. They were moving...
...theater is an interesting character, and T.R. certainly fills the bill. The old roughriding, jingoistic trustbuster provides exactly the right mixture of eccentricity and believability to captivate an audience from the moment he chaotically and humorously enters from the back of the theater to the time of his inspiring exit at the play...
...became unbearable to the maestro, and in 1971 he slipped out to Sweden on a carelessly stamped exit visa. He soon signed on as general music director of the Kiel Opera, then picked up guest engagements in Europe and America. Tennstedt made his U.S. debut in December 1974, conducting the Boston Symphony in Brahms and Bruckner. The complex, granitic Eighth Symphony of Bruckner was hardly an easy choice for a newcomer, but the performance made it clear that a conductor of the first rank had arrived. The Boston had not sounded so brilliant in years. Subsequent appearances - topped...