Word: reno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe the brief rumor that they were demanding custody of Angela Davis. The $500,000 ransom seemed almost a relief-as did a quiet and temporarily successful $200,000 holdup of a United jet in Reno. Today the most frequently-and falsely-coupled words are "senseless" and "violence." But violence is never senseless to the person who commits it. The absurdity occurs only to the victims and onlookers. Therein lies the deepest fear of modern times. War may be obscene; still, it obeys its own rules...
...best-known, high-altitude, highwayman, was a calm character calling himself D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 to Seattle last November, collected a $200,000 ransom and four parachutes, coolly bailed out as the plane flew on toward Reno, and was never caught. Immortalized in song and on sweatshirts, Cooper has inspired nearly half a dozen imitators, all of whom have failed. But a new spate of plane snatchings last week seemed to stem from the more recent exploits of Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., 29, who came the closest to succeeding since the Cooper caper...
...confessed, she says, "the poor bastard turned 17 shades of green." He told her she was through with the job. "I told him, 'If you fire me, I'll get you for the Mann Act.' He called his wife, and she joined us in Reno and traveled with us after that...
Smear Tactics. Though Loeb has been the dominant force in New Hampshire journalism since he bought into the Union Leader in 1946, he does not even live in the state. Rather, he divides his time between a ranch near Reno and a stately neo-Tudor home at Prides Crossing, Mass., 60 miles south of Manchester. He seldom shows up at the Union Leader but phones the paper every day from wherever he happens to be, to "keep track of things" and often to dictate a front-page editorial straight off the cuff. He never writes them out in advance because...
Hughes sold his shares of TWA in 1966, receiving $546 million for them. It was then that he began his inroads into Nevada, buying up five Las Vegas hotels, a casino in Las Vegas and another in Reno. He also acquired a TV station, a Las Vegas air terminal, thousands of acres of real estate, and a regional airline, now Hughes Airwest. Meantime, thanks in part to the fact that he left them alone under competent management, Hughes Tool and Hughes Aircraft, an electronics and satellite company, were thriving...