Word: flown
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...wreckage in the search for bodies. Four were found under the landing gear. Floodlights illuminated the scene, which included the grotesque sight of corpses being loaded into refrigerator trucks labeled LIVE MAINE LOBSTERS. All three members of the cockpit crew were killed. The pilot, Captain Ted Connors, 57, had flown for Delta for 31 years. One passenger survived because she made a lucky decision. Assigned a front seat before takeoff from Fort Lauderdale, Annie Edwards, of Pompano Beach, Fla., shifted to a rear seat beside a friend, Juanita Williams. Both survived. They were among a group of women going...
...Rock Hudson was flown home to Los Angeles from France early last Tuesday and transferred on a stretcher to a waiting helicopter, which took him to UCLA Medical Center in Westwood for further medical treatment. Lester Maddox, former Governor of Georgia, was undergoing tests out of fear that he might have received the virus that causes AIDS from contaminated blood serum prescribed by a controversial cancer clinic in the Bahamas. At a New York City television station, technicians announced that they would not work in the studio during a scheduled live interview with an AIDS patient. The interview was dropped...
More than 15,000 demonstrators turned out as the ribbon was finally tied around the Lincoln Memorial. Nearly overwhelmed by the occasion, Merritt told the crowd, "I'm not going to cry. I'm just going to pray for peace." Afterward, sections of the ribbon were flown to Los Angeles and unfurled as demonstrators conducted a peace vigil along a 15-mile stretch of Wilshire Boulevard...
...Both men had been active in last year's arrest of a Mafia leader who later turned state's evidence. A deeply shocked Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi immediately summoned his top security officials for an emergency meeting. At midweek an 800-man force of police and carabinieri was flown to Palermo. Declared the city's mayor, Luca Orlando: "We cannot cope on our own. Either there is national action against the Mafia, or Palermo and Sicily will be lost...
...seek treatment with an experimental antiviral preparation called HPA-23, which was discovered at the city's famed Pasteur Institute. French experiments with this and other new drugs have made Paris something of a Lourdes, attracting dozens of AIDS patients from the U.S. and elsewhere. Some patients have flown to Mexico to be treated with other drugs supposedly effective against AIDS but not approved for use in the U.S. Some sufferers have spent small fortunes on obscure rejuvenating treatments in Switzerland and sheep-gland injections in Rumania, or have turned to holistic healers, megavitamin therapists, even voodoo doctors and spiritualists...