Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dead-Reckoning Navigator. The most serious source of danger is essentially the same in 1967 as it was in 1927: bad weather. On the favorite summertime route-from the U.S. to Sept lies, Canada to Goose Bay to Greenland to Iceland to Scotland-sudden storms blow up without warning; ice can form on wing surfaces at the drop of a single degree in temperature, and the approach to such key mid-flight havens as Greenland's fiord-fringed Narsarssuak airfield (known to thousands of World War II flyers as Bluie West One) is as often as not socked...
...spectrum apart at the U.N., but at Expo, their threadbare cinema techniques are interchangeable. Israel pats itself on the back with its customary miracle-in-the-Negev approach. Russia shows a stupefying selection of dreary movies, including shorts featuring capering comrades at a Black Sea resort and bears playing ice hockey, which look like rejects from a FitzPatrick travelogue of the '30s. To make matters worse, some of the films come equipped with booming Russian sound tracks-but no subtitles...
...very day he learned that his papers would be preserved and protected, Trotsky was assassinated. A man calling himself Frank Jacson, who had connived his way into Trotsky's confidence, crept up behind him while he was at work in his study, and crushed his skull with an ice...
Even if you're not interested in being a Snooze-ed-for-the-summer, you're sure to want to see the historical Georgian Crimson building, with its historical interior, where for centuries historical Harvies have exchanged gossip and ice-cream sandwiches...
Peace & Harmony. The Shapiros have a special taste for ice cream, since their $100 million concern began in 1911 as a Boston ice-cream-cone bakery. Immigrating there from Russia, Brothers Nathan and Joseph Shapiro devised a technique of using rotary bakers instead of the single-line machinery in common use. Borrowing $10,000 from an uncle, they formed their own company, soon moved it to Baltimore-logically assuming that, since the weather there was warmer ice-cream sales would be higher...