Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front of the Draper facility near Kendall Square, demonstrators listened to Richard Proescher, who was recently fired from the General Dynamics Trident submarine manufacturing plant in Groton, Conn. for his anti-nuclear activities. Proescher said that conversion of weapons plants to peaceful uses would mean more jobs. "Weapons production is the least labor-intensive industry there is," Proescher told the crowd
...crash was the worst in U.S. aviation history. The worst previous accident occurred eight months ago when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 collided with a private aircraft near the San Diego airport. That collision killed 144 people. Worldwide, the toll had been exceeded only in the collision of two jumbo Boeing 747 airliners on the ground at Tenerife in the Canary Islands in March 1977, killing 583 people, and the crash of another DC-10 near Paris in 1974, in which 346 died...
...huge jet reached an altitude of about 500 ft. But it began dropping. Captain Lux fought to get the craft under control. On Touhy Avenue, near Interstate 90, Chicago Patrol Officer Michael Delany was working with a dog at the police canine center. He turned to look up at the crippled airplane. "We could see all the fuel was spouting out the left side where the engine would be," he said. "And then as he got over our compound, the other engine shut off. So there was complete silence in the air. And then the plane turned, perpendicular...
...York's Kennedy Airport in 1975, when a number of seagulls had been caught in its internal blades. But the crew was able to abort the takeoff without injury. Another possibility was that the engine fan assembly had disintegrated in flight. That had happened to a DC-10 near Albuquerque in 1973, ripping a hole in the fuselage. One passenger was sucked out a window to his death...
...rally, at Sennott Park, near Central Square, will feature speeches by members of the Cambridge Community, and representatives of the labor and antinuclear movements. Dorothy Boudreau, a member of the MFS and an organizer of the protest, said yesterday...