Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the President has also strengthened his position against his possible Republican opponents. In August, Carter trailed Reagan by four percentage points. But in the latest survey, he has regained the lead, 45% to 41%. Similarly, Carter has widened his lead over John Connally from four points in the late summer to 13 points now. Kennedy's advantage over these Republicans is, however, much wider...
...years as a pilot with Western Air Lines, Captain Charles Gilbert, 53, had made the run between Los Angeles and Mexico City hundreds of times. The last occasion had been in late October, six days after Runway 23-L, which is the only one at Benito Juarez International Airport equipped for instrument landings, had been closed for repairs. Last week, before he took off at 12:50 a.m. from Los Angeles in command of Flight 2605, the "Night Owl," carrying 13 crew members and 75 passengers, he was reminded that he had to land on Runway...
...tragically wrong. The DC-10 touched down on the closed runway and headed toward a dump truck. Gilbert apparently realized his mistake and tried, too late, to lift the DC-10 back into the air. The plane smashed into the truck, veered wildly to the right, wound up slamming into an Eastern Air Lines maintenance building and burst into flames. The final death count was 73: a total of 60 passengers, eleven crew members, including Gilbert, and two people on the ground...
What caused Gilbert's error? That will take weeks to determine. But the cockpit crew seemed fatigued; Gilbert and his aides were late in doing their final checks as they approached the runway. In addition, Benito Juarez Airport is one of 250 with a redstar rating from the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations, meaning that the airport is "severely deficient." The only worse rating is a black star for "critically deficient," which the IFALPA has given to 19 airports (the only one in the U.S. is Los Angeles International). Among the reasons for the Mexico City...
What began in September as a rebuilding season ended late yesterday afternoon as just that when the Harvard field hockey team closed out its 1979 season with a disappointing 3-0 loss to Northeastern...