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...budget of this movie would appear to be approximately half the price of a ticket. No matter, because audiences whoop it up at all the synthetic terror and threadbare mumbo jumbo. There are many moments of low comedy, all inadvertent, as when Abby beats up on her husband, croaking "You are gonna love and obey!" as she pummels him. The rampant foolishness, indeed, may be part of the point. Audiences know that Abby's appeal is way low-down and prefer to chide themselves for enjoying it. As much as they may laugh, though, audiences could never put themselves...
...Masai herdsmen looked on in horror, the inevitable finally occurred last week: the first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Seconds after takeoff from Nairobi, Lufthansa Flight LH 540 en route to Johannesburg shuddered violently, then sank tail first from an altitude of less than 200 ft. Lufthansa reported that for reasons still not clear, the leading-edge wing flaps were not in the extended position after takeoff. Thus, the aircraft did not have enough wing lift to climb...
...commercial service. Since the jumbo jet began flying almost five years ago, it has carried 75 million passengers a total of 193 billion passenger miles. By comparison, the smaller Boeing 707 flew 1.5 billion such miles before suffering its first crash in which passengers were killed. Other commercial planes, while extremely safe, also have not done quite so well as the 747. Even with the Nairobi tragedy, it still holds the most impressive safety record in aviation history...
...Jumbos took control and the ball spent much of its time in the Crimson end. But Ralph Booth and Jeff Hargadon played gritty defense and thwarted the potentially dangerous Jumbo assaults...
...Yardlings dominated play for the rest of the game. Aggressive play by the fullbacks held the ball in Tufts' end of the field. The forward line and the halfbacks, using shorter and more accurate passing, peppered the Jumbo goalie with 18 shots...