Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course a 48 quarterman is nothing to write Villanova's Jumbo Eliot about, but Army has put together a string of them, so observers expect the last race to be a tough one for even the lightening-quick Crimson mile-relay...
...nostalgic World War II G.I.s to Pearl Harbor commemorations every December. But as with much else in the land of rising statistics, the Japanese effort appears to be much bigger, or at least more zealous. Last year about 6,000 Japanese toured World War II battlegrounds. A Pan Am jumbo jet last month brought 300 pilgrims home from Saipan, Guam and Tinian; another 400 will soon be leaving on a cruise ship for the burning sands of Iwo Jima, where no fewer than 20,000 Imperial troops died in combat. Later this year, other battleground pilgrims will visit Mindanao, Leyte...
...flat bureaucratic prose, the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency issued an order last week directing flight crews on all McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 jumbo jets to make certain that the cargo holds of their planes are locked and properly sealed before they take off. Behind those words may well be the solution to the mystery of the worst air disaster in history: the crash near Paris on March 3 of a Turkish Airlines DC-10, in which at least 344 passengers and crew members lost their lives...
...even junior high school students took to their heels in ever greater numbers. In Chicago, three boys with perfect timing streaked their high school as the student body rose for the morning national anthem. An adult male streaker whipped up and down the aisles of a Pan American jumbo jet en route from London to New York. Senior Citizen Virgil Cleves, 67, was arrested in Lima, Ohio, for a bare stroll in the public square with equally bare Wanda Gray, 46. He was asking equal time for "snailing," he said, since he was too old to streak. In London...
When the Government in October ordered the restrictive fuel allocations that began this month, airline executives set about slicing overhead like so many chefs trimming fat from a steak. They took 1,500 domestic flights from the daily schedule of 13,800. They grounded 275 planes, 16 of them jumbo 747s, from their fleet of 2,400. And they furloughed low-seniority workers from jobs that may never be restored...