Word: slides
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...35mm Slide Workshop. Four sections meeting for two hour sessions on alternate weeks...
False Glow. Just as economists now debate whether this year's economic slide could justifiably be called a recession, they may be arguing next year whether so weak a comeback should be certified a recovery. The strike at General Motors will distort the picture for the next six months or so. The walkout, Arthur Okun estimates, will chop $1 billion off the gross national product for each week it lasts, and give a misleading impression of a deepening slump. In early 1971, Okun adds, catch-up production by G.M. will paint an equally deceptive "rosy glow" on the economy...
...plane slowed down, the crew blasted open the emergency exits, and passengers began to slide to safety on the plastic evacuation chutes. But Captain Priddy, still unaware of the emergency, inched the 747 forward a few yards, throwing some passengers from the slides. Then the crew was allowed to leave. "You have two minutes," one gunman informed Priddy as he sat in the cockpit. The crew had run only as far as the wingtip when the $25 million craft exploded into a ball of fire. Egyptian authorities seized the three commandos. At week's end, there were still no charges...
Fringe Benefit. Real security, most drivers agree, will come only when all cabs are equipped with immovable, bulletproof screens between driver and passengers (payment would be made via a tray that would slide between cabby and passenger), as well as driver control over back-seat door locks. New York's experience with the slide-open screen has not been too successful. "On a hot summer night," says a police spokesman, "what's a cabby supposed to do-drive with his window shut...
...place during the 1960s. No longer is the earth's crust thought of as a rigid shell, but rather as a dozen gigantic, mobile "plates." These plates are thought to be driven slowly across the terrestrial surface by enormous currents within the earth. When two plates collide, one slides under the other, causing deep and devastating earthquakes like the one that rocked Peru in June. Shallower quakes occur when two plates slide past each other, as do the two sides of the San Andreas Fault system in California...