Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MUMBO JUMBO...
...bargain prices for some time, but his laughs are not cheap. The outrageousness of his comic vision and the sinister coils of his prose beg comparison with William Burroughs. Survivors of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance may also be reminded of the orneriness of George Schuyler, the Black Mencken. Mumbo Jumbo is set-or rather cut loose-in the Harlem of the '20s, although Reed's ideas of renaissance slide all the way back to ancient Egypt. Like a street-hustling Norman O. Brown, Reed jives Western civilization into its mythological parts. There is the power of light, reason...
While the passenger in a 747 jumbo jet comfortably sips a martini or soaks up the stereo, a rather disconcerting development may be going on inside one of the huge, intricate engines that power the plane. For reasons that still mystify technicians, one or two of the 138 knife-shaped blades in the engine's second-stage turbine may be breaking off in flight and whizzing out the exhaust in showers of tiny metal slivers. The breakoff is so silent that neither passengers nor flight crew notice it, and because it does not lead to fires or loss...
...confidence with a steady stream of verbal taunts. The Aces' reward: the Julius T. Nachazel Memorial Trophy, made from a couple of tin cans and some cut-glass jewels and named after a retired Michigan Tech professor whose name had appealed to the tournament's director, Jumbo Jim Davis...
...deal to be closed next month. The hard-bargaining Chinese will pay in cash with Western currencies for the planes, a supply of spare parts and training for Chinese crews. Ultimately, the Chinese may need 80 more planes, and they have already expressed interest in a Boeing 747 jumbo...