Word: ington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ancient days, before Watergate made Woodward and Bernstein household words, investigative reporting meant Drew Pearson. He was, as TIME said then, "the most in tensely feared and hated man in Washington." From the '30s to the '60s, scoops in his syndicated column ("Wash ington Merry-Go-Round") or on his Sunday radio broad casts became headlines: the Roosevelt court-packing plan, F.D.R.'s destroyers-for-bases swap with Churchill, the Patton soldier-slapping incident, Sherman Adams' vicuna coat and many other tales, worthy and less worthy...
...Safety Board investigation may take several weeks, but preliminary findings point to some computer error, perhaps because it was fed wrong information. The Federal Aviation Administration has centers at points along the path of every flight above 18,000 feet within the Golden Triangle-the Chicago, New York, Wash ington area-where computers assign airspace to planes. Somehow, the computer assigned Flight 37 and Flight 182 to the same airspace at the same moment. The error was theoretically impossible, but something like it happened again last week. Two Boeing 727s-a TWA craft with 77 passengers and a United...
...Will you make than an order?" Pasztor said. Cox complied, and McCarty, saying, "You're the boss," began to usher the invited guests-Anand Panyarachun, Thai Ambassador to Canada; Nguyed Hoan, an aide at the South Vietnamese embassy in Wash-ington; Dolf Droge, a White House Vietnam adviser; and I. Milton Sacks, professor of government at Brandets-toward the door...