Word: los
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burton blasts Bond on DC-lOs...
...Burton accused Bond of moving too slowly to ground the DC-10. At one point, Burton rose from his chair and shouted, "Jesus Christ, just who is in charge over there anyway?" Later the chairman produced a copy of a report from the FAA's regional office in Los Angeles, dated June 1, which noted that the flange on the aft bulkhead of the engine pylon-a part suspect in the DC-10 crash-may have cracked under stress. Bond admitted he had not seen the report. Burton stood again and declared acidly, "It would be helpful...
...come-on for cottages, motels and beaches. So far, tourist centers within a tank of major cities have not suffered appreciably from the gas shortage: attendance at Williamsburg, Va., 158 miles from Washington, B.C., has actually been up, and Disneyland, which is only 27 miles from metropolitan Los Angeles, also reports increased patronage. Businesses in areas that are more isolated, like Las Vegas, the Florida Everglades and Lake Tahoe, though, have suffered. Overall weekend automobile travel in the U.S. is down about 15% compared with this time a year...
DIED. Ján Kadár, 61, expatriate Czechoslovak film director; of respiratory failure; in Los Angeles. The Hungarian-born Kadár, a wartime labor camp survivor, focused so sharply in his movies on the rights of individuals that Czechoslovak film authorities once suspended his license to work. He fled to the U.S. "to be a free citizen" when Soviet tanks crushed the brief "Prague spring" liberalization in 1968; that was three years after he had produced his masterwork, The Shop on Main Street, a haunting drama about an elderly Jewish woman who is betrayed to the Nazis...
DIED. Jack Haley, 79, jovial Boston-born stage and screen comedian best remembered as the Tin Woodman, Judy Garland's fellow pilgrim on the yellow brick road in the 1939 MGM film classic The Wizard of Oz; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Haley parlayed his blue-eyed Irish good looks, comic flair ("Trouble is my best material") and talent for song and dance routines into a lucrative career that allowed him to all but retire after World War II as a millionaire real estate investor. Last appearance: in Norwood, a 1970 movie directed by his son Jack...