Word: planes
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...consecutive weeks in May 1973. This summer Magnuson, 66, will retire after 32 years at the magazine. Looking back over his distinguished career here, Ed recalls handling our coverage of the My Lai massacre, the Pentagon papers, the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island and "a lot of plane crashes. I guess you could say I was a bad-news guy." For us and our readers, though, it has always been good news when he and Church handled the bad news...
...work at the office. Then the cellular phone made the car, even the golf course, fair game. In 1984 Airfone Inc., a GTE subsidiary, began installing telephones on airplanes. But their old-fashioned analog circuitry, vulnerable to interference, made many calls sound as if they came from Mars. Moreover, plane phones were usually scarce, located either fore or aft or shared, one to a three-seat complex, leaving travelers a reasonable excuse for staying blissfully out of pocket...
...approved system allows for safe and continuous operation even on takeoffs and landings. The high-tech electronic gear on the airplanes connects to a series of 80 ground centers scattered strategically across the U.S. and Canada. Whereas now lengthy calls must often be redialed when the plane leaves one area, continuous phone connections will soon be available. Negotiations are under way to link up with similar systems being designed in Europe and the Far East...
Sullivan, who said she prepared her speech during a plane trip from California Tuesday night, received many laughs and a standing ovation from the audience. Before her speech, the graduating class awarded her the first-ever Albert M. Sacks and Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence...
...fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington to Baghdad...