Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thorpe. The answer was an all but inaudible "It is." Following a hearing that lasted a scant 21 minutes, the slight, dapper Thorpe, 49, was released on $10,000 bail after being formally charged with conspiracy to murder. The alleged target: Norman Scott, 37, a down-and-out male model who 2½ years ago publicly claimed that he and Thorpe had had a homosexual relationship. The stunning legal action presented Britons with their greatest political scandal since the Profumo sex-and-national-security expose...
...that he had been offered roughly $10,000 by a nameless "prominent Liberal" and friend of Thorpe's to murder Scott and thus silence the claims of homosexual liaison. Newton had been sentenced to two years in prison after shooting Scott's dog and threatening the indigent model...
...Airbus A310 is derived from the larger and highly successful A300, the first twin-engine and wide-bodied jet. The Dash 400 is a slightly smaller version of the Lockheed TriStar 1011. Lockheed is also experimenting with a long-range model, the Dash 500, which would fly 6,100 miles at one stretch...
...smaller loads (80 to 109 passengers) and shorter hops (100 to 200 miles), the nationalized British Aerospace plans to roll out its four-engine Model 146-200 in 1982. A few years later, Boeing hopes to introduce a far more advanced short-haul plane; it will be adapted from the QSRA (for Quiet Short Haul Research Airplane), which Boeing developed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plane will be ideal for commuters, since it can take off and land on extremely short runways. Reason: its four engines mounted atop the wing blow exhaust over the upper surface, creating...
...million years ago, then turned down an evolutionary dead-end street and disappeared. But science has learned what happened to habilis. With a brain-half again as big as his neighbors', he not only adapted to his environment but evolved. Habilis passed his genes along to an improved model called erectus, who evolved into modern man, a creature Shakespeare more accurately called "the paragon of animals...