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...Airport 1975, a sequel to its earlier high-and-mightily profitable Airport. In this terminal picture, Earthquake Survivor Heston attempts a mid-air transfer from a helicopter to aid Stewardess Karen Black in landing a disabled and pilotless 747. Later the studio will re-create the burning of the Hindenburg, with George C. Scott and a specially built 60-ft. demidirigible...
...other colonial bulletins, a visitor to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington can wander backward or forward in American journalism to examine, say, the first regularly published newspaper in America (Boston News-Letter, 1704), or see news photos of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1937 crash of the Hindenburg...
...which create lethal wastes and might accidentally release disastrous amounts of radioactivity. The spread of reactors appears to be inevitable, however, in view of the increasing demand for power and the dwindling reserves of conventional fuels. Hydrogen also scares people who cannot forget the fiery end of the dirigible Hindenburg in 1937. Nevertheless, German industry daily pumps hydrogen through 185 miles of pipeline, and researchers at Oklahoma State University use it to power four experimental cars that produce almost no pollution. It even has been used to run the domestic appliances in the Institute of Gas Technology's experimental...
First the two got Hindenburg to fire the incumbent Chancellor and replace him with Von Papen. The delighted Hindenburg beamed: "Now I can have a Cabinet of my friends." Then, in a double-cross, Schleicher had Von Papen ousted and became Chancellor himself, planning to rule Germany by splitting the Nazi Party and taking over a third of Hitler's Reichstag deputies. The plan had some merit; large numbers of Nazis, including at one time Berlin Party Chief Joseph Goebbels, thought Hitler had sold out to the capitalists...
...Papen contrived Schleicher's fall and convinced Hindenburg that the way to neutralize Nazi power was to give Hitler the chancellorship and then surround him with conservative ministers. Within a year Schleicher had been killed and Germany belonged to the Führer...