Word: finality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bond's final order grounding the DC-10 was sweeping, but there were critics who wanted him to go further. Most notably, the Air Line Pilots Association demanded that the entire DC-10 aircraft be re-examined from nose to tail. Declared ALPA President John J. O'Donnell: "The fight against FAA lethargy is just beginning." Bond was scheduled to be grilled by a House subcommittee this week on all aspects of his agency's handling of the DC-10 crisis...
...frightened by the mass adulation that greeted their public appearances. It was unprecedented, the need of the public to touch these images when they appeared in the flesh. He thrived on it and restlessly roamed the globe as his popularity faded. The rest lessness became sexual and finally caused their divorce in 1936. By then she was 42, and all she really wanted was a chance to enjoy her winnings in comfort. Pickfair was perhaps the most comfortable great house in America, elegant and welcoming. In 1937 she married Buddy Rogers, the band leader and actor who had given...
...final blow, however, came when Jay Lapidus and his pack of Princeton Tigers destroyed the Crimson, 8-1, capturing the first undisputed league title since...
Senior southpaw Larry Brown, coming off a disappointing final season at Harvard which ended with a loss to Cornell that knocked the Crimson out of the playoff picture, was drafted in the 14th round yesterday by the Houston Astros...
Considered by many as the greatest living mathematical astronomer, Chandrasekhar developed the theory of the dwarf star that explains the final stages of stellar evolution. Born in Lahore, India, in 1910, he became a U.S. citizen in 1953. His other research has included work in the dynamics of stellar systems, theory of stellar atmospheres, radiative transfer, hydrodynamics and hydromagnetic relativity. From 1952 to 1971, he acted as managing editor of Astrophysical Journal. Chandrasekhar received the 1966 National Medal of Science for his contribution to the study of cosmic dynamics. His books include Principles of Stellar Dynamics (1942) and Radioactive Transfer...