Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THERE you take the Southern State Parkway out of New York City, running east along the coast, and you don't stop driving until you can taste the salt in the air. Along the way you pass the Fire Island bridge, a monument in concrete and steel to the relentless vision of a man named Robert Moses. Moses ran for governor of the state in '34 and lost, but he ran the state anyway, with his convoys of cement mixers and cranes. Moses created most of central Long Island in his own image--flat and gray and cement-hard...
Amidst azure skies, lung-cleansing air, and 250 cases of cross-country cough. Quincy House retained the men's title in the interhouse meet held yesterday. An impressive total of 163 points allowed Quincy to literally run away with the race. Remarkably, nine of the top 30 runners hailed from the victorious House...
Many Faculty members and administrators are meticulously dressed and groomed. Even some of the students are wearing coats and ties or expensive-looking dresses. An air of solemnity hangs over the room as Dean Rosovsky bangs his gavel and calls the meeting to order. Like a fastidious schoolmarm, he gives his usual speech on the necessity of punctuality...
...more traffic. And some CAB officials talk as if discovering how much inconvenience passengers are willing to stand is what deregulation is all about. Says Michael Levine, the CAB'S director of prices: "The airlines are now free to find out what people want. The bottom range of air travel has not yet been explored." To which one airline executive replies: "There are only so many ways you can pack sardines...
Since August, a floating, 500-ton experimental station located 2½ miles at sea off Japan's Honshu island has been producing 125 kw. of power. The facility has several air chambers that are open to the sea at the bottom and contain large floats; as the floats bob up and down, air is pushed through nozzles in the top of the chambers, turning air turbines that drive electric generators...