Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Airport officials worried that the small auxiliary generator hooked up to the plane might not be powerful enough to run its air-conditioning system properly-and temperatures under Dubai's hot sun rose as high as 102° during the first day of captivity. Said a police officer: "They must really be cooking out there now." Another problem was sanitation: when Palestinians in September 1970 forced three foreign jets to land in the Jordanian desert (and eventually blew them up), a major complaint by the hostages was the overflowing toilets on board...
...appeared after the Lod catastrophe. Said shocked Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka: "This is terrible. The government will do all in its power to assure the safety of the passengers." At Tokyo International Airport, worried relatives waited for news. But as the week ended, from the 747 sweltering in the sun at Dubai came word only that the terrorists were "waiting for instructions." From whom? No one knew...
After 40 years as monarch of Afghanistan, King Mohammed Zahir Shah, 58, presumably thought it safe to take a holiday in Italy to soak up some sun and get treatment for a troublesome eye condition. That, as it turned out last week, was a royal mistake. While the King was bathing his eyes with mud and mineral water at a thermal spa on the isle of Ischia off Naples, his kingdom was peremptorily converted into a republic. Leading the coup was his cousin and brother-in-law, ex-Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan...
Seventh Seal. Another Bergman ripe with stock Bergmanesque soul soundings, brow beatings and breast poundings -- God, death, life and love -- as he wonders whether the world has meaning. Harvard Square Sun...
Rules of the Game. Renoir -- maybe the best movie ever made. Harvard Square Sun...