Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astronauts' flight. To cover the shot, Houston Bureau Chief Don Neff, Washington Correspondent David Lee and Houston Stringer Jim Schefter, all veterans of earlier and less ambitious shots, filed from location. Lee and Schefter stayed at Cane Kennedy until the successful liftoff; then Schefter piloted them by private plane to Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, thus escaping the massive migration of newsmen that jams transportation to Houston after a launch. In Houston, they joined Neff, who had managed to relocate the entire bureau, including Teletype machines, to a hotel suite across the street from the space headquarters south...
...each of the Apollo 8 men has an intense sense of mission and purpose, and has demonstrated courageous stubbornness. When the engine of an F-104 that Borman was piloting blew up in flight, instead of bailing out, Borman, flying at twice the speed of sound, stayed in the plane, got the explosive engine started again, and coaxed enough thrust to make a safe landing...
...Bucher in the lead. "It's so great. You'll never know how great it is," he called out as he limped toward his wife. Then he embraced her for a long moment, tears running down his cheeks. When Hodges' coffin was removed from the lead plane, the happy families abruptly fell silent while a band played the Navy Hymn...
Under orders to prevent bloodshed if possible, they ordered the stunned airport crowd away, using bullhorns and speaking in English and Arabic. Then they methodically went from plane to plane-one was a Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 just about to depart for Saudi Arabia-at gunpoint ordering passengers to disembark, then planting explosives under the wings. One after another, the aircraft were blasted into fiery mangled metal. For good measure, the commandos also set fire to hangars and oil-storage tanks...
...have become cynical, a few have found alcohol their only compatible matchmate, a few have resigned themselves to no dates. One girl, an attractive Manhattan secretary, even packed her bags in Nassau, preferring to pay the plane fare rather than return on board...