Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes the Gaelic lament. For Mia the time was halved. Although the Farrow family life was chaotic and neurotic, there were still close alliances within its framework. In London at '13, she learned that her brother Michael, with whom she had been closest, had been killed in a private-plane crash in California. "It quite simply destroyed the family," she says. "He had been my confidant, my idol. When my brother died, the rest of us just sort of fell into our own plots of soil and grew...
...planned divorce proceedings. Mia heard about them not from her husband but from his attorney. Coolly she announced that she wanted no financial settlement?which apparently stunned the singer more than a countersuit for a million. After the lawyer's visit, she took Sinatra's private plane to Los Angeles?where she found an airport full of reporters who could only have been tipped off by Sinatra's associates. Terrified, Mia talked the pilot into taking off and depositing her at another airport miles away...
...Viet Nam, an Army photographer shoots sharp reconnaissance pictures despite the vibration of his small observation plane. From a shaky and make shift platform in Washington, a TV camera crew gives viewers a clear close-up portrait of Richard Nixon making his inaugural address. In North Miami, a policeman with a television camera takes shots showing distinct facial features of individuals creating a civil disturbance hundreds of feet below his quivering helicopter. In these and dozens of other applications, a remarkable new optical system is providing clear and steady images under circumstances that ordinarily cause blurred photo graphs or jiggling...
...social scientists have a measurement for social values akin to the dollar, although one possible theoretical unit is called the "utile," used by economists to weigh the price people would pay to avoid the sonic boom of an SST, for example, as against the economic benefits that the plane would give them...
...largest and most successful Arab airline, managed to maintain its service by doubling up some flights in the first days following the raid. Instead of scheduling separate flights to London and Paris, for example, it serviced both capitals with a single daily plane from Beirut. To back up its remaining five planes, the line has since chartered three Comets from Kuwait Airways, one Boeing 720B from Ethiopian Airlines and another Boeing from Air France. It will also have six months' free use of a Caravelle owned by Morocco's King Hassan II. Other offers to help have come...