Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers are carefully scrutinized before boarding, and all baggage is probably Xrayed. Since skyjackers forced an El Al plane to Algiers in 1968, all El Al planes have carried two to four plainclothes security men. The armed guards, who refer to themselves as the "007 Squad," are generally muscular young men, often ex-paratroopers, trained in karate. Superb marksmen, they are armed with low-velocity pistols, which are powerful enough to kill but unlikely to puncture the fuselage. It was these guards who overpowered two would-be hijackers in one of last week's attempts, killing...
Jumping Jack. The affected children, estimated to number as many as 3,000,000 under 15 in the U.S. today, are not mentally retarded. Most are about average or above in IQ ratings, usually high on verbal skills but lower on muscular coordination tests. It is their achievement quotients that are distressingly low. As many as 70% of the victims are boys; no one knows why. While the children do not all exhibit all the same symptoms, the jumping-jack hyperkinesis is present in at least 80%. Almost invariably there is a passion for handling things, often clumsily so that...
...Undefeated so far this season, she has established herself as the world's foremost female track star. At the National A.A.U. Championships in Los Angeles, she ran the 220-yd. dash in 22.6 sec., besting her own world record by one-tenth of a second. Last month the muscular (5 ft. 7½ in., 136 lb.) Chi set a world record of 10 sec. flat in the 100-yd. dash. Having posted the season's best marks in four different events, Chi finds it hard to specialize her training. "Hurdles are supposed to be her best event," says...
...movie theater on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood is packed. The front rows are filled with a red-robed choir of men and women. Hymnals are distributed; an organ plays. By Hollywood standards, the congregation is run-of-the-mill: middle-aged businessmen, a few boys in rainbow-hued bellbottoms, muscular types in T shirts, women in assorted styles of pants or skirts, a few motorcycle boys in mustaches and black leather. Whites, blacks, Orientals, Chicanos. Prayers are read. From a chair at the side, a husky 30-year-old man in vestments abruptly rises, steps swiftly out in front...
...once chemists fully understand enzymatic action, they may be able to produce far more efficient catalysts for industry. Koshland's work could also have a direct effect on man. It might some day lead to improved treatment for diseases that involve enzyme abnormalities, including cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy...