Word: flew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle left Braniff stranded. On March 1, it flew a 747 loaded with celebrities to Britain for what it had planned as a gala inauguration of its new run be tween London and Dallas-Fort Worth. The Life Guards band turned out at Gatwick airport to serenade the orange jumbo jet with The Yellow Rose of Texas. But the British government would not let Braniff fly passengers back to the U.S. at the new low fares, and the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board refused to let Braniff charge the high fares. Result: the plane flew back with its nonpaying passengers...
...Fresh carrots dangling from the ends of the sticks, but the same old donkeys after them. "People have said to me the competition for jobs makes the competition for grades look trivial," Turow says. "Performance in class is no longer important; it's who made you an offer and flew you down to Washington that becomes the new status, and some people crave it. People will back-bite, and go interview with law firms and say bad things about people they know...
...spinal cord. It had cut spinal nerves, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors gave him less than a fifty-fifty chance of regaining full use of his legs. President Carter's sister, Ruth Stapleton, who had presided over Flynt's celebrated conversion last fall, flew in to Atlanta and called him "one of my good Christian friends." Sometime Comedian Dick Gregory visited, and so did Kennedy Assassination Theorist Mark Lane. Fellow Pornographer Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine, arrived in a chauffeured black limousine and a bulletproof vest. Said he: "Maybe it was somebody down here...
...proof that his announced plan to bring majority rule to Rhodesia by next year would lead to escalation, rather than cessation, of the five-year-old guerrilla war. Smith's "internal settlement," negotiated with three moderate black nationalists, excludes Patriotic Front Leaders Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, who flew to New York last week to address a session of the U.N. Security Council on Rhodesia that had been requested by 49 African nations. "We would do anything to block the Smith settlement here," said Tanzania's U.N. Ambassador Salim A. Salim, "because otherwise it would have to be blocked...
...Komsomolsk, 565 miles north of Vladivostok. By the time the last rail is laid in 1983, the cost of the project, now one-third cornplete after three years of work, may reach $15 billion-twice the price of the Alaska pipeline. TIME'S Moscow bureau chief Marsh Clark flew from Khabarovsk on the Manchurian border to a construction site on BAM's eastern end for a look at the work in progress. His report...