Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time being, however, the airlines will stick to their present procedure of avoiding airborne disaster by giving the sky pirate what he wants-a free trip to Havana. And the Government will continue its efforts to change Cuba from a haven for skyjackers into a nonscheduled stop with a return flight to a federal penitentiary...
...black mother in the sky," Hef calls it. A regular DC-9 jetliner can carry 115 passengers; Hefner's will seat 50 and sleep 15-or maybe 16, if there are two in the elliptical bed in Hef's own compartment. The compartment, which also boasts a stereo console, a movie screen and a step-down Roman bath, is reached through a special entrance in the underside of the plane...
...planes, and since the increased speed inevitably means creation of a boom, there's no way to get rid of the problem while keeping the SSTs' benefits. After pointing this out (in a chapter puckishly called "Is there a cure for the boom?"), Shurcliffe tells why booms from the sky...
...will be five floors for a bank, a brokerage office and retail shops. Above that come seven floors of parking space-enough for 1,200 autos-and then 28 floors of office space, which will add at least 7% to Chicago's supply. There is a 44th-floor "sky lobby," consisting of a barber shop, drugstore and a number of similar services for residents. The building's 705 apartments, ranging from a one-bedroom, $220-a-month unit on the 45th floor to a three-bedroom, $775 spread on the 92nd, give residents breathtaking views and the distinction...
Inadvertent Visitors. The FAA sends plainclothes "sky marshals" along on Miami-bound flights selected at random, and no flight with an FAA man aboard has yet been skyjacked-but there is little that a lawman could do to prevent plane piracy without increasing the already considerable danger to all on board. In any case, putting marshals aboard the hundreds of flights daily that might be skyjacked would be prohibitively costly. The wildest potential remedies include a trap door that would drop the skyjacker into the blue yonder at the push of a button, or hidden circuits that would stun...