Word: plane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free their eleven Arab hostages ended in disaster. Last week the commandos were ambushed by Cypriot national guardsmen. Fifteen of the 58 Egyptians who had flown into Cyprus' Larnaca airport aboard a C-130E military transport died in a swirling 50-minute airport gun battle. Their $6 million plane went up in flames...
...fact, no returning fire came from the DC-8. Instead, astonished Cypriot officials immediately ordered their national guardsmen to shoot the commandos. The Egyptians were caught in a deadly fusillade; the Jeep was hit by grenades, its occupants killed. Most of the outgunned Egyptians took shelter in a nearby plane. Finally they surrendered. Then the hijackers meekly turned over their weapons and gave themselves...
John F. Kennedy was campaigning for the presidency when Cassius Clay Jr. returned triumphant from the Olympic Games in Rome. The blithe boy-child stepped off the plane spouting poetry and singing of his possibilities. He was bold?some said brash?with hopes and dreams, but much seemed within the reach of American aspirations in those freshening days. Cassius signed with a syndicate of wealthy Louisville businessmen, who underwrote his early training as a professional fighter against a 50% belief in purses to come. He had been boxing since the age of twelve with the heavyweight title as his unwavering...
...have known some of the glory that Ali did-and for the rest of their lives they can take solace from the fact that they once held the most coveted title in boxing. Three of the ex-champs since Joe Louis are dead: Rocky Marciano was killed in a plane crash in 1969, Sonny Liston died of an overdose of drugs in 1970, and in 1975 Ezzard Charles succumbed to the lingering muscular disease that killed baseball's Lou Gehrig. Louis and the other five surviving champions have coped with life without the title in a variety of ways...
...difference between, say, Lear and Lycidas. Hobey Baker, a masterpiece of athletic talent at Princeton in the years before World War I, died in 1918 when his plane crashed in France. After his graduation, Baker had said sadly: "I realize my life is finished ... I will never equal the excitement of playing on the football field...