Word: planed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...told his old pal Air Force General Jimmy Doolittle, then at the Shell Oil Co., that he needed a fuel that would not boil off at the low pressures of the upper atmosphere, Shell scientists produced a special low-boil, kerosene-type fuel just for Johnson's plane. Inevitably, it became known as Kelly's Lighter Fluid...
That day came two years ago, when the Pentagon decided it needed a new version of the old spy plane. It would incorporate the latest "stealth" features as well as updated electronic snooping capability that can peer sideways over borders and transmit data-including TV-type pictures-directly back to military commanders on the ground. Twenty-five TR-ls will be built at a cost of $550 million. Thanks to Johnson's premonition, the bill will be a tidy $10 million less than it might have been had he not squirreled away those old tools...
...General António Soares Carneiro. With the Prime Minister, in the twin-engine Cessna C-421, were his longtime companion, Danish-born Snu Abecassis; Defense Minister Adeline Amaro da Costa and his wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered a wing and dropped in flames to the street. All aboard were killed. Sá Carneiro's own Social Democratic Party was quick to dismiss any suspicion of sabotage. Airport employees reported that the Cessna was in such poor condition that mechanics had to help...
DIED. Francisco Sa Carneiro, 46, Prime Minister of Portugal whose rightist Democratic Alliance had given his country its first stable government since the overthrow of Marcello Caetano in 1974; in a plane crash that also killed Minister...
Despite the loss of superstar Sarah Mleczko '80, the 1978-79 Crimson team shocked everyone with a legitimate run at the national title. But the season will also be remembered for the tragic death of number-two player Cynthia Stanton '82 in a plane crash, and for Moses' mysterious personal problems with the team...