Word: decking
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...night last week, while the Machine was beating a team from New York, Tony Perez came up to bat with the bases loaded and got all his weight into one. Way, way up in the left-field grandstand's third deck were two ingrates who thought they were safe. Tony's 500-ft. blast just cleared them and their sign, which read "Jimmy and Tobi Love the Mets." The Mets...
Since the Six Day War, the fedayeen have emerged not only as a troublesome guerrilla threat to Israel, but also as a force to be reckoned with in the domestic politics of nearly every Arab nation. "We are the joker in the deck," boasts Dr. George Habash, leader of the extremist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), whose specialty is the hijacking of airplanes. "Without our consent, the other Arabs can do nothing, and we will never agree to a peaceful settlement. If the Arab countries now think they can gang up and make peace over our heads...
...mechanism that kept breaking down. Pueblo was crammed with highly classified material and devices. Yet it possessed only rudimentary equipment for destroying its secrets in an emergency. The Pentagon had authorized Pueblo to carry a relatively large, 3-in. 50-cal. cannon. But tiny, overloaded Pueblo had neither the deck space for it nor qualified gunners to man it. Bucher settled for two ineffectual .50-cal. machine guns mounted in exposed positions...
...Architect Olin Stephens was seen tinkering with Valiant, his latest 12-meter design. Near by, Skipper-Designer Charlie Morgan Jr. was hard at work seeking to improve his golden-hulled Heritage. At another slip, the crew of Helmsman Bill Picker's Intrepid lounged on the sloop's deck, sporting green-and-white buttons that declared PICKER IS QUICKER...
...board a jumbo than on a smaller jet. "A gregariousness has set : in that we did not reckon on," says Pan Am President Najeeb Halaby. Passengers wander up and down the two aisles, try to help the stewardesses or invade the first-class flight lounge on the top deck. Of the 15,000 whom Pan Am has polled, about three-quarters praise the 747's spaciousness; the other one-quarter dislike the crowds or occasional delays in baggage handling. Passengers once were tied up for three hours at Rome's major airport after three 747s landed at approximately...