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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the air pressure that had built up in the cabin and cockpit as the plane climbed, the aft bulkhead buckled, apparently because of an almost invisible 12-in. crack. The sudden decompression blew off the entire nonpressurized tail cone-a lO-ft.-long metal shell serving mainly to streamline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Air Scares | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

In Philadelphia, a similar suit brought by the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union proved so unpopular that former Ambassador Walter Annenberg donated $50,000 to help pay for the platform on Logan Circle for the Pope's Mass. Members of local construction unions offered to do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Preparing for the Pope | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Today the sensitive soul's empire is in ruins. After a New York dealer launched a suit against him, Straw suddenly filed for both personal and corporate bankruptcy. Against $1.7 million in assets, he listed a staggering $16.2 million in debts. He left at least 97 stunned creditors. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Straw That Broke... | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Straw, Benedek claims, subsequently told him that 17 of the 22 pieces of furniture had been sold, but Benedek was never paid his half share of the proceeds. And although Straw had told Benedek that he had a buyer lined up to pay $19 million for the $15 million group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Straw That Broke... | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

On July 4, the Strelczyks and the Wetzels made their way under cover of darkness to a meadow 25 miles from the border. That first escape attempt aborted: the winds were wrong, the gas ran out, and they landed undetected, a few hundred yards short of the frontier. Last weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: The Great Balloon Escape | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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