Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entryway, asking each of them his name and age and taking a trinket or a piece of clothing from each as they passed into the darkened entrance. The narrow tunnel led down to an old moving van buried six feet under the ground as part of a landfill project after World War II; it was 25 ft. long, 8 ft. wide, 6 ft. high, and had two white plastic ventilation pipes coming out of its sides and up to the ground. The prisoners found the subterranean chamber had been stocked with mattresses, bedspreads, Cheerios, potato chips and water...
Rescue Derring-Do. Not every studio has joined the race to Entebbe. Says United Artists Production Boss Michael Medavoy: "I have serious reservations about capitalizing on a news story like that. It cheapens everybody." That criticism notwithstanding, at least one project offers hope of exceptional accuracy: Merv Griffin Productions' Odyssey of 139, which will focus on the ordeal of the hostages rather than the derring-do of the rescue. Reason: Griffin President Murray Schwartz was aboard the hijacked plane and was among the group of hostages released prior to the Israeli rescue mission...
...cutesie, all-American blonde you project, glossy and slick, is vacuous to this American woman...
...Viking Project Manager James S. Martin Jr. sounded plaintive last week, there was good reason. After studying photographs and radar scans of Viking's first alternative landing site on Mars' Chryse Planitia, the Plains of Chryse, he scrubbed a landing scheduled for July 17 and started studying a new site for a touchdown that could not take place until next week at the earliest. The postponement, following last month's decision to cancel Viking's scheduled July 4 landing, raised concern among scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mission Control Center; it further reduced...
...ensure this, ABC has embarked on the most ambitious TV project in history. Virtually all of the network's prime time (7:30-11 p.m., E.S.T.) on week nights, plus most weekend afternoons and evenings, will be devoted to the Games...