Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Third-ranked senior John Stubbs also maintained complete control for an easy win. "It was sort of hard coming so soon after then Princeton match, which is very special. But we didn't let down, and all we have left is Yale,' Stubbs said after clinching...
...fugitives split up after walking about four blocks. They agreed to meet later at the British embassy. But by the next day the student militants had taken control of that embassy, too, holding it for about five hours. As King was not a U.S. diplomat, his problems were more financial than political. Equipped with new documents, he managed to borrow money for air passage home and flew...
Kennedy's speech was received coolly by Carter, who ordered his staffers to control their emotions and hold their tongues. But they were barely able to contain their anger and sarcasm. "The speech will win back the liberal activists but hurt him in the general election," said a staffer. Campaign Director Robert Strauss commented: "I'm rather speechless about the speech. It didn't excite me, and I suspect the American public feels the same...
...Ilyushin 62 jet carrying 130 people, including Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, approached New York City's Kennedy Airport on the afternoon of Jan. 18, something went dangerously awry in the control tower. The letters and numbers identifying a blip on the radar screen as the Soviet plane suddenly disappeared. An unidentified voice then ordered the Soviet pilot to descend from 8,000 ft. to 4,000 ft., into airspace that is normally reserved for small planes. For three minutes-and six miles-the jetliner flew at low altitude over heavily populated Long Island, until a tower supervisor discovered what...
...week's end the FBI had questioned some two dozen controllers, but a number of others were refusing to provide any information to the investigators except their names, ages and home addresses. Anthony Maimone, head of Local 160, insisted that human error or mechanical failure was to blame and accused the FAA of "blowing this thing out of proportion." Said a former PATCO official: "I just cannot believe that a controller who was not certifiably psychotic would do a thing like that." Whatever the case, said Gabriel Hartl, a spokesman for the Air Traffic Control Association, only...