Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fuel Costs Rise. Business is vigorous throughout the light-aircraft industry. No longer the ultimate expression of corporate and personal squanderlust. the private plane is now a ubiquitous -and often essential-means of air travel to smaller cities and towns across the country. One reason is the rise in fuel costs, which has forced commercial air carriers to cut service to many smaller airports, thus making private planes or autos often the only alternatives. With many light aircraft getting upwards of 20 miles per gal. at 110-plus m.p.h., the private plane is not only faster than a company...
...appearances, divine purpose is still faithfully served along Zurich's elegant Bahnhofstrasse, where the great names of Swiss banking conduct their worldwide affairs behind stately fagades of Alpine granite. Yet the air of heavenly serenity on the stylish street provides a curtain for mundane turmoil. After the worst scandal in Swiss banking history, that sedate and secretive industry has moved-or rather been pushed-to tighten up some practices that have proved shockingly loose. The changes may turn out to be far-reaching...
...troupe opened its fourth summer season at Lake Placid, N.Y., its mood seemed more buoyant and carefree than ever before. On the stage of the Adirondack resort's Center for Music, Drama and Art, there were the usual sprints, baseball slides and staggers. A woman flew through the air and, miraculously, a man appeared out of nowhere to catch her. Four men in dinner jackets pranced madly around like stallions crashing the Gong Show. Dancers dove to the floor and scrambled up-all in time to the music, all illustrating Choreographer Taylor's kinetic sense of the zany...
...walks and runs set to the music of Bach. At one point Nicholas Gunn, the company's best-known male dancer, must run across the stage to catch Carolyn Adams. Says Gunn: "I have to keep moving at that terrific tempo, and she has to jump in the air and hope that a man who is not there yet will get there at the last second to catch her. It's frightening...
...help prepare air travelers for their ordeal on the ground, TIME, with the aid of correspondents around the world, has compiled the following rating guide,* taking into account such matters as accessibility and services, though not safety. Following are our assessments of the ten busiest U.S. airports (in order of busyness), four in Europe and six in the Far East...