Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which McDonnell had acquired in 1967, lost $60.3 million, mainly because of unrecovered DC-10 costs. This was more than offset by the pretax profit of $281 million earned by other departments, primarily the McDonnell military division, which makes the F-4 Phantom, F-15 Eagle and F-18A Hornet fighters...
DIED. Al Hodge, 66, onetime actor best known as Captain Video, television's first kiddie hero; of lung disease; in Manhattan. Already a popular radio performer who had played the Green Hornet from 1936 to 1943, Hodge joined the DuMont network serial Captain Video and his Video Rangers in 1950 and for the next six years, rocketed around the 23rd century universe, battling a galaxy of such villains as Mook the Moon Man and Spartak of the Black Planet. His re-entry was rough, however. Indelibly typecast as the galactic commander-he was even addressed as "Captain" while testifying...
...crevasse and endured serious frostbite while charting the geological history of Antarctica. Describing the latter calamity, Byrd wrote, "Wade was certainly a shocking sight ... his face grossly swollen, the right eye tightly puffed under puffy lids. He looked exactly as if he had stuck his head in a hornet's nest ... No one had seen a worse case of frosting...
...high school basketball team called, naturally enough, the Waverly Wonders. The chief distinction between the two shows is that NBC'S sweathogs are better looking than ABC's. Another program that might appeal to Freddie is Sword of Justice, which sounds like a cross between The Green Hornet and The Scarlet Pimpernel. After serving five years in prison on a bum rap, the hero (Dack Rambo) emerges to be come a handsome, sexy and rich gadabout by day. But at night he is a handsome, sexy and rich scourge of evildoers. Zap! Zap! Or, yawn, yawn...
...FAILURE of the Mississippi House to ratify the amendment has indeed stirred up a hornet's nest. The members of the House blatantly defied the will of the people personified in Cliff Finch, and the "people" want revenge. After the Mississippi establishment elite has for two years laughed and ridiculed Finch, they can no longer dismiss Finch's adventitious rise to power as incidental or insignificant. On the contrary, Finch's meteoric ascendency can be traced to the changing nature of Mississippi society and the material conditions molding the outlook of its people...