Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...air, junior birdmen...
...alone in July. Some homeowners are installing waterless toilets, which use a mineral-oil base that is constantly recycled and filtered through a 500-gal. waste tank under the house; every year a truck pumps out the refuse. Others have attached fiberglass tanks full of compressed air to cut down on the number of gallons of water required to flush a toilet. People are also affixing gadgets to their showers and faucets to decrease the flow. Many California families are voluntarily bathing in six gallons of water or less, then using it to water plants or wipe off dirty windows...
...Truman Balcony, Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter sit, hands touching, side by side in their sturdy Georgia-made rocking chairs, like generations of Southern couples on countless porches of a summer evening. The twilight air is heavy, but the Carters, relaxing in blue jeans and sports clothes after the day's work, seem not to notice. "I like this balcony," muses the President, looking beyond the green sweep of the South Lawn and the Softball game in progress on the Ellipse to the great monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. "I often come out here...
...over the Wisconsin city of Oshkosh darkened last week as swarms of flying machines-biplanes and Breezies, power gliders and Gyrocopters, delta wings and Aerodusters-cavorted and capered in the air like drunken dragonflies. The occasion: the 25th annual convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), held at Wittman Field, where 430 homemade aircraft of every description registered for the festivities. Some, like Paul Sunday's 90%-completed Varieze, were trailered to Wisconsin. Others came in on a wing and a prayer. Michael Murphy, a TWA mechanic who built his sky-cycle from a photograph of a 1912 wood...
...air controllers sent to Oshkosh from other Midwestern airports to keep the participants out of one another's struts, the convention was not only the "world's largest aviation event" but also the world's biggest traffic jam. Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest airport, averages some 2,000 landings and takeoffs a day; there were more than 4,800 daily at Oshkosh. Since many of the planes were not even equipped with radios, the controllers were forced to rely on red smoke signals. Even those flyers with radios were not much...