Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spend $125,000 to cover the same ground in six days that thousands of airline passengers travel every week in a few hours? At a press conference, Abruzzo talked in much the same terms that explorers have used for centuries: "Unless frontiers are challenged from time to time-whether they be flying a balloon, breaking an altitude record in a plane or writing a fine piece of literature -we don't move forward as a society." And Anderson described the lure of ballooning: "There are no books or music up there, but there is the whole world...
...congressional elections from being interpreted as a Republican defeat, G.O.P. National Chairman William Brock is going to great lengths to point out his party's modest expectations. Republicans, he says, are concentrating their money and energy on local races, where they forecast a net gain of six governorships and 250 seats in the state legislatures. He adds: "What we're trying to do is restore our party's base so we can go into 1980 with lots of enthusiasm and momentum. "In other words: wait till next time...
...making the pilgrimage to Memphis and the grave of the rock king at his mansion known as Graceland. But the streets are eerily quiet as the evening advances. Only the buzzing of summer locusts in the crape myrtle trees breaks the silence. The police have been on strike for six days, and Mayor Wyeth Chandler, declaring a "state of civil emergency," has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew...
Arafat and other Palestinian leaders blamed Zionist and CIA agents. But Ahmed Jebreel, head of the pro-Syrian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, was the logical suspect. Six weeks earlier, two of his commandos were killed by men thought to be members of the P.L.F. It appeared that Jebreel, in seeking to even the score, made a tragic miscalculation. Only an hour before the explosion, the 28-member central committee of the P.L.F. had unexpectedly adjourned a meeting. Thus the intended victims of the blast walked away unharmed...
...crime. Some eyewitnesses reported that they thought they heard German spoken at the scene of the abduction. Police also noted that the manner in which the kidnaping was staged and the precision execution of Moro's five bodyguards were curiously similar in style to the kidnaping six months earlier of German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne...