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That ominous and prescient prediction made last month by Federal Aviation Administrator John Shaffer came all too true last week, the most frightening that U.S. aviation has ever known. The episode began with a call to Trans World Airlines by a man who called himself Gomez. He directed officials to a Kennedy Airport locker containing it note saying that there were bombs on four TWA airliners set to go off over an 18-hour period; he would locate them all in exchange for a $2,000,000 ransom...
Miraculously, no one was injured in the rash of bomb planting, some not the work of Gomez but probably inspired by his example. (Airport switchboards across the country were flooded with crank calls of false bomb threats.) Gomez himself gave the location of the TWA bomb that was found, warning that it was on Flight No. 7, which had just taken off from New York for Los Angeles. The plane hurried back to Kennedy Airport and was emptied; then two sniffer dogs trained to smell out explosives boarded the ship. It was their first live test, and one of them...
...national reputation of its forward line is one of Harvard's advantages. Solomon Gomez and Peter Bogovitch are gone from the 1969 team, but captain Charlie Thomas and Phil Kydes keep the tradition very much alive, while Felix Adedeji and Chris Papagianis are worthy replacements...
...years ago close coverage on Gomez and Thomas more or less neutralized Harvard's offense, but this year such tactics play right into the Crimson game plan. The main purpose of the "overload" offense is to isolate a wing on one defender; double coverage makes it that much easier...
...surprise of the week was Tuft's victory over second-ranked Wesleyan, 5-3. The Jumbos, led by sophomore Gabriel Gomez, recorded their eighth consecutive win of the season before falling to Amherst, 1-0, in overtime. Despite the loss, Tufts jumped from fourth to second in the New England ratings...