Word: wingtip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite marriage, politics still dominated Jackson. Characteristically, he interrupted his honeymoon to attend a naval briefing at Pearl Harbor. But his wife brought new grace and style to his life, though he still wears undistinguished suits and black wingtip shoes, and drives a 1961 Chevrolet. The Jacksons own two houses, one in Washington's fashionable Spring Valley, the other a large house in Everett that was once the home of a banker who was the richest and most powerful man in town when Jackson was a boy-a bit of symbolism much appreciated by the Senator's friends...
...plane crossed the Suez Canal and was over Sinai before the captain sighted what he thought were Egyptian MIGs flying wingtip to wingtip with him. Actually, the planes were Israeli Phantoms alerted by radar. The Israelis were more sensitive than usual to any invasion of their air space that day, for two reasons. One was an odd rumor that Arab fedayeen were planning some sort of kamikaze raid on Israel using a disguised civilian airliner. The other was a more substantial report that a commando of trained Al-Fatah guerrillas was flying from Libya to Cairo en route to camps...
...plane, as designed, measures 107 feet from wingtip to wingtip and has a small, one-man fuselage. The wing frames are built from balsa wood covered with saran wrap, while the leading edges are constructed of "foamulum," a newly invented light-weight aluminum compound resembling styrofoam in appearance. In all, without a pilot, the plane weighs 119 pounds...
...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 placed against them ?partly, no doubt, because Nasser had welcomed the Athens hijackers to Cairo last July as "patriots." However, Egypt's semi...