Word: airport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand to greet President Richard Nixon at Gulfport, Miss. Municipal Airport last week was a nearly all white crowd of 30,000. They were in a festive, exuberant mood, despite the fact that some had waited more than five hours to see the first Chief Executive since Harry Truman to visit their state...
...Last December's Israeli attack on Beirut Airport, destroying 13 Arab airliners, was carried out by helicopter-borne commandos...
This is familiar Fellini territory, but the maestro has added a few more flamboyant turns of the screw. His camera swoops through the Rome airport during Toby's arrival, catching glimpses of bizarre travelers bathed in demonic orange light, their bodies contorted into poses that are parodies of reality. Indeed, there is almost too much in Never for a short film. Fellini's sometimes prodigal genius threatens to overwhelm the story, which he apparently agreed to do only on the advice of his astrologer. But even to such journeyman projects, Fellini brings the kind of stylistic prestidigitation that...
...were responsible for hijacking a TWA jetliner, bound from Rome to Tel Aviv. Israeli jet fighters intercepted the diverted plane, but there was nothing they could do without endangering the 101 passengers and 12 crew members. The plane was forced to land at Syria's new $40 million airport at Damascus. There the hijackers herded everyone off, then exploded a bomb in the cockpit. Earlier, Jerusalem came under rocket attack. Three 6-ft.-long, 50-lb., Soviet-made Katyusha missiles'exploded harmlessly in the city. In London a small bomb exploded, injuring a woman in the office...
...experts formed last year to supply citizens with facts for intelligent protest. The group includes leading lawyers, chemists, geologists and physicists, including Edward U. Condon, former chief of the National Bureau of Standards. In recent months, it has uncovered Army nerve gas stored casually near Denver's airport and probed the whereabouts of radioactive plutonium lost in a fire at a Dow-operated nuclear plant near Boulder. But so far, nothing has worried the committee as much as Project Rulison...