Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Passenger George Brokaw is alive because he remembered instructions on a small card on the back of the next seat and tucked his head between his knees when he saw sparks from the Convair's nose. "I thought we were coming in for a normal landing," said Robert Cooley, who awoke 200 ft. from the debris. "I sure hate to land in Cincinnati," remarked Stewardess Eleanor Kurtock, a survivor, seconds before the airliner took its final plunge-7,050 ft. short of the airport's North-South Runway...
Turkish Advantage. Even in normal times, the massacre would have exacerbated relations between Turkey and Greece, since each country has a legal responsibility under the island's 1960 independence charter to protect its own ethnic groups. Toward that end, Turkey is granted the right to station 650 troops there, and Greece 950-though both countries have in the past seven years illegally infiltrated many times that number. At present, there are about 1,500 Turkish soldiers on Cyprus and roughly 8,000 regular Greek troops. There are also 4,000 United Nations troops whose job is to keep...
...minipound, also had to ante up the difference. Miss Peru, winner of the Miss World contest two weeks ago in London, found her ?2,500 prize suddenly 14.3% poorer. And several cities in Britain reported that the number of inquiries about emigration was suddenly running double and triple the normal rate...
...three other girls had no cancer, but biliary atresia-a congenital absence of bile ducts. This behaves for all practical purposes like a malignancy, and usually proves fatal within 18 months. Since construction of a normal route for the bile was impossible in these cases, the Starzl team did transplants for Paula Kay Hansen, aged 2, of Fort Worth; Kerri Lynn Brown, 16 months, of Long Beach, Calif.; and Carol Lynne Macourt, 16 months, of Salt Lake City...
...bombast in Wagner. The five-hour morality saga of human love in conflict with divine power-and of divinity in conflict with itself-has hardly ever sounded so subdued and lyrical. Without the need to outshout torrents of sound from the pit, the singers often performed at little above normal conversational tones...