Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muses Economy Minister Pham Kim Ngoc: "Jumbo jets carry charter groups from Europe to the beaches of Thailand. We also offer sun and sand. Why not Viet Nam?" A government study targets earnings from tourism at $140 million by 1980. By that time -and provided that the present uneasy truce does not get any uneasier -Ngoc even visualizes Con Son Island, the home of the notorious tiger cages for political prisoners, catering instead to tourists. They would enjoy miles of palm-fringed beaches that are occupied mainly by giant tortoises...
...nine innings, was called after seven as Tufts was hopelessly behind and the contest was already three hours old. Harvard sent nine men to the plate in the second and fourth innings and ten in the fifth. The parade of hitters, combined with three pitching changes by the Jumbos and the delay caused by Jumbo reliever Rick Taylor, who took time out to take off his undershirt in the fourth, effectively slowed up the game...
...innings moving at a rather swift pace as they combined for a four-hitter. A near gale wind blowing out toward center field helped the hitting on both sides. Tufts collected two of its three runs on a wind-blown homer in the third off the bat of Jumbo starting pitcher Mitch Shaw...
...Holy Mass is indeed a sacrifice, and what's more, they offer it in the forbidden language of Latin. They hear confessions in private, rather than granting the mass public absolutions that have become de rigueur. These bizarre rituals become an international cause célèbre. Jumbo jets fly in from the States with fervid pilgrims hot for worship in the old way. Television crews arrive to broadcast the phenomenon to the world...
...first full year as president, losses were cut from $46 million to $29 million. Pan Am executives, understandably money-conscious, have serious doubts about the Concorde's profitability. They calculated that the plane gulps two to three times as much fuel per passenger as the 747 jumbo, and that fuel prices would soar as world energy supplies dwindled. Concorde operating costs would be so exorbitant that Pan Am might have to charge a premium of as much as 20% over first-class fares, which are now $888 for a round trip between New York and Paris in the high...