Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flight 249 from Denver to Portland. The threat seemed very distant until the FBI men spoke: "Do any of you know any reason why someone would want to kill you? Can you think of any reason in your private lives to make someone want to do this?" The bomb scare was a dramatic event and the passengers tended to be detached, to view the drama as spectators, rather than as participants. The tone of the FBI questions made it clear that this was no TV drama; it was real life...
During times of external stress, such as during the Northeast power blackout, people commonly band together in a close-knit fraternity until the threat eases. This bomb scare was a similar situation. There was an immediate threat to the lives of the passengers and crew and this common danger unified the group; there was a sense of solidarity through shared experience. The threatened community was not completely closed, however, Passengers were not allowed to leave the immediate area but police, airline, and FBI officials freely came and went...
...effect of this one-way movement was to heighten the shared experience of the passengers even more. Passengers congregated in small groups to discuss their emotional response to the bomb scare, to talk about helping fellow passengers to ease the inconvenience of the time delay, and to share sympathy for missed appointments. There was very little verbalized hatred for the unknown person responsible for the bomb threat; the passengers concentrated on helping each other by talking about their own circumstances in their unfortunate, but accepted situation...
Sutherland's first roles were in ghoul films (Die! Die! My Darling!, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors). "I needed the money and the experience." From the scare flicks it was a struggle to MGM's The Dirty Dozen in 1968. As one of the bottom six of the Dozen, a slack-jawed soldier with a head as impenetrable as a Government-issue helmet, Sutherland so impressed Director Robert Aldrich that he ordered up the tour-de-farce scene where Sutherland impersonates a general and inspects the troops on an American Army base...
...border in Pennsylvania there were no known leads to the identities of the brutal killers of Union Leader Jock Yablonski, his wife and daughter. The football industry, which usually confines mayhem to the gridiron, was shuddering on the eve of the Super Bowl through a fresh gambling-scandal scare...