Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard F. Marchi, assistant to the director of aviation at Massport, said yesterday the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering four possible headings for Logan air traffic. The 210 degree route, currently in use, carries planes over South Boston and affects the greatest number of people, he added...
...stick on U.S. consumers. The bill, which went into effect on Dec. 1, relaxed the ceiling on domestic natural gas prices, allowing them to rise closer to world market levels. Congress hoped that this would encourage producers to find more gas. Not so. In January and February, the number of wells drilled declined by 7% compared with the equivalent period a year...
...excitement. Though every cut and camera angle in Hair appears to have been carefully conceived, the total effect is spontaneous. Like the best movie musicals of the '50s (Singin' in the Rain) and the '60s (A Hard Day's Night), Hair leaps from one number to the next. Soon the audience is leaping...
...Sweden's Slavic Mission made the mistake of sending two well-informed officials into the Soviet Union. Police held them for nearly six months' interrogation and extracted damaging details on a number of networks, as well as plans to have young, Bible-toting Christians blitz the 1980 Moscow Olympics...
...number of speculations are posited. Both sides, the authors believe, would refrain from using nuclear weapons, though chemical warfare would be fairly widespread. The modern conventional war would be over quickly because of the speed with which supplies would be consumed. (The danger of such war games is that even professional strategists can be overtaken by events. The book assumes, for example, that Iran, led by the Shah, would support NATO strongly.) As this history develops, open revolt among the satellite nations and within the Soviet Union splits the country into republics, but not before an ICBM destroys Birmingham, England...