Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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An air-traffic controller hunched over his radarscope one morning last week as he nursed Trans World Airlines' Super Constellation Flight 266 (from Dayton and Columbus) through rain, sleet and snow toward New York's La Guardia Airport. At 10:35 an unexpected blip slid across his scope...
Part of the jet cut through the roof of one house. Engines, fuselage, cargo, bodies cascaded with thundering crunches onto the street; rivulets of jet fuel skittered and splashed crazily and ignited into billows of flame, which in turn touched off the gasoline tanks of parked cars. Panicky tenants fled...
"Over & Over." As the hundreds 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...
For the Catholic ceremony, King and Queen rode in a bubbletop Cadillac through the cheering streets to the 13th century Gothic church of St. Gudule. The church was hung with scarlet draperies, ancient tapestries and 150,000 Spanish violets. In the ranks of honor, with the royalty and the beribboned...
Presenting Face. Though Haile Selassie describes his government as "state socialism," it is in fact still absolute monarchy. To secure even the smallest government post, the applicant must go through the ritual of feet mahswagaht, which means "making one's face apparent." Each morning, the applicant lines up in...