Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subjected to a thorough and intimate antihijack body check; still, four mid-air hijackings have been foiled, while another plane was shot at by anti-Jordanian guerrillas while taking off. After leaving Beirut, Alia Caravelles must fly out over the Mediterranean toward Cyprus and then to Mersa Matruh, swing inland over Egypt to Luxor, turn again to cross the Red Sea and fly north over Saudi Arabia to reach Amman. The nonstop flight lasts four hours and consumes nearly every drop of fuel. "It is just within range with nothing to spare," says Alia Director Ali Ghandour. "If a hijacker...
...Grand Tour," the spaceship would have swooped by Jupiter and with a whiplike assist from that planet's powerful gravitational field, flown past the ringed Saturn and finally Pluto, the outermost planet. In another version, the spacecraft would have used a similar "gravity assist" from Jupiter to swing by Uranus and Neptune instead of Pluto. Scheduled for the late 1970s, the Grand Tours would literally have been once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. The outer planets will not be in such a favorable position again for another 179 years...
...from 4.2% four years ago, and in the past two years it has lost more than $45 million on computer operations. In order to raise badly needed cash last year, it sold off or leased some of its extensive Minneapolis property holdings, and it was able to swing a loan of $245 million from a group of 14 banks headed by Chase Manhattan only after agreeing to let Chase lock up some of a subsidiary's stock in a vault as security...
Some of the more mature passengers also managed to swing, though less overtly. A European blonde in her mid-50s cuddled quietly with five different men on the first five days at sea. A spinster from North America discreetly resumed a four-year-old liaison with a cabin boy. "He might not be an officer," explained one of her friends, "but he is an intelligent cabin boy. And very kind." A few other matrons found comfort with the gaggle of gigolos aboard. Gay liberation was also evident. Punned one ship's officer: "We are carrying both lifeboats and fairies...
...Harvard team jumped to an early 22 International Match Points (IMP) lead in the first third of the match, largely due to a brilliant 13 IMP double game swing in the first hand of play. After that point, the losers never seriously threatened the Harvard team in their...