Word: aire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flight 85 from a routine run into a fantastic flying hegira that led all the way across the U.S. and then over the Atlantic to a bizarre conclusion in Rome. All through its strange progress, the changing track of Flight 85 compelled the attention of the earthbound: the FBI, air-traffic controllers, and-quite understandably -President Forwood Wiser of TWA, who sat out the 17-hour ordeal with other top company executives at the airline's Manhattan headquarters. Said a Federal Aviation Agency official: "That flight was handled as if it were Air Force One." The general public...
...wanted to see his ailing 80-year-old father, who returned to Italy a year ago. If that was his aim, he chose an irrational way to achieve it. Italian authorities announced that Minichiello will stand trial for kidnaping and hijacking. In New York, U.S. officials filed charges of air piracy, kidnaping and other offenses that carry penalties from 20 years' imprisonment to death. At his Marine Corps court-martial, Minichiello faced a maximum sentence of only six months in the brig without pay and a bad-conduct discharge...
...Harvard now... no, not yet. Now we're in Cambridge. Smell the air: it's fresher here...
...moment approached which would bring the climax of the evening. There was no feverish political air to the room but there was a quiet anticipation of the ultimate purpose of the evening, a speech by Vellucci. After a brief plea for support by a candidate for the school committee. Vellucci stood...
More immediately important, cities must begin to reclaim some of the ground and air space now dominated by the automobile. Theodore Kheel, with Mayor Lindsay's backing, has proposed lifting bridge and tunnel tolls to finance a continued 20-cent subway fare. Mario Procaccino has opposed the Kheel plan, asserting that drivers should not be asked to subsidize mass transit more than they are already doing. With this argument, Procaccino completely fails to realize that mass transit riders already pay a tremendous, almost incalculable subsidy to drivers: they travel in a crowded, dirty, sightless underground, while conceding the open air...