Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precisely 3:20 p.m. one day last week, a Swissair DC-10 with 125 passengers aboard lifted off from Zurich's Kloten airport for a flight that ended, uneventfully, 4% hours later in Tel Aviv. Almost simultaneously, many more of the U.S.-built, tri-engine wide-bodies were taxiing to runways all over Europe. By week's end 13 European lines, including such prestigious carriers as Lufthansa, SAS, Alitalia and KLM, had put their 58 DC-10s back into the air. Though their decision brought cheers from the plane's beleaguered manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas...
Rogers' victory is an example of organized grass-roots resistance to liberal trends in current religious thought and behavior. Conservatives campaigned in 15 states to draw the inerrancy voters to Houston. Rogers will enjoy wide influence and has indirect power over the appointment of seminary board members. He is already on record as being interested in the idea of investigating the seminaries and what they teach...
...scene had a passing resemblance to Semi-Tough: bedecked in formal duds rather than football pads, premier Pittsburgh Steeler Wide Receiver Lynn Swann, 27, ran an unfamiliar pattern down the aisle of Hollywood's United Methodist Church to wed a comely model and Santa Monica College student, Bernadette Robi, 21, with assistance from beaming teammates and friends like Franco Harris, O.J. Simpson and Sam ("Bam") Cunningham. As part of the mostly traditional ceremony, Swann, who writes poetry on the sidelines, recited one ditty composed for his bride ("My soul is your soul and time is our instrument to build...
...spectators' visual perception is seized from the very outset of the film: stunning views of Manhattan's urban setting introduce the location of the film's action in a dynamic montage flow. Black and white photography together with wide screen ratio ideally combine to present the architectural-pictorial aspect of the metropolis. With its metal, stone, dark brick, glass and concrete structures, New York projects a black-and-white vision. Color belongs to San Francisco, Palm Beach, Las Vegas and even Washington, while dark and bright contrast, especially at night, is what makes New York visually the most exciting city...
Others, including the leaders of an election year drive to end city-wide rent control, disagree. "Condominiums are the best things that have happened to this city in years," Richard Fraiman, president of the Cambridge Home Owners and Tax- Payers Association, said last week...