Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...upon hundreds of rescue workers fought their way courageously through the smoking disaster, others were converging on Staten Island's tiny Miller Field, an Army helicopter and small-plane airport. The TWA Constellation had fallen on the edge of the field, a slim 150 ft. beyond a residential section and two schools. "It went down in a terrible way," said one woman, "one wing gone-and it turned over and over very slowly." Seat-belted bodies were flung everywhere. An Army squad arrived in trucks, played extinguishers on burning bodies, crawled into the wreckage, and with knives cut seat...
...West Germany, a day after the New York disaster, a U.S. Air Force Convair, carrying 13 holiday-bound University of Maryland students and a crew of seven, crashed in downtown Munich shortly after takeoff, heeled sharply into a two-section trolley car jammed with Christmas shoppers, and exploded into a fiery pyre. All aboard the plane and at least 60 Germans were killed...
...much more impressed by Harvard than Yale," said Rachid Benounmour, President of the U.S. section of UGEMA. Harvard students, he found, "are more aware of international affaire" and are more able "to get away from provincialism" than students of other universities he had visited...
...tutor said that in his section "reactions are mixed, but they are all rather curious to see what is going to happen." An Ec 98 student commented, "This is going to mean hard work...
Three miles east of the shopping area will be the heart of the new development, the 1,000-acre university section where the University of California is building a new branch. The first buildings will be ready to receive the students in 1964; when completed in 1980, the entire complex will house 25,000 students. Since many of them will want part-time jobs, light industry (electronics, aircraft and missile components) will be located on the perimeter of the university section...