Word: airport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take a look at your fellow prisoners next time you are stranded at O'Hare International Airport, waiting in numb misery for Groundloop Airlines to postpone your red-eye to Washington National. At least half the frequent sufferers -- blue-suited business plodders of both sexes -- will carry a megatech spy paperback. Not a detective story or a gothic bodice ripper but a 500-page thunderation about missile subs, perhaps, or rocket attacks on space stations...
...campaign. As the buses wound their way south, they picked up delegates and evening-news airtime. Jackson also got some of what he craved: by week's end Brountas had called him to apologize for not informing Dukakis about the early departure for the airport. Jackson spoke with Dukakis, and they talked several times over the next few days in an effort to make peace. Estrich and Ron Brown, Jackson's savvy convention manager, who are old friends, planned a series of meetings in Atlanta. Said Brown: "The positive thing is that there's a lot of communication...
...reporter covering the civil rights story. Those who traveled the South back then -- reporters or regional auditors or salesmen with the Southeast territory -- came to roost at the end of the week in Atlanta precisely because it was the Gate City to the South: we needed the airport. They used to say that someone who died in the South might go to heaven, but he'd have to change planes in Atlanta...
Atlanta now has the standard characteristics of a national city. Travelers arriving in its vast, ultra-modern airport are guided on what seems like an almost endless journey toward the outside world by a disembodied voice that speaks standard American English -- the Southern woman who recorded it having been instructed to purge her speech of any cornpone connotations. It can match just about any Northern city in the splendor of its high-rises or the poverty of those who are sometimes spoken of as living "in the shadow of the buildings." The white residents of most of its neighborhoods have...
...Atlanta's now a great city in one way only," Pat Conroy wrote in a letter to the Constitution last fall. "It's a fabulous city for business." The business statistics tossed off now are not about branch offices but about facilities of foreign companies. The airport is spoken of not as simply a place to catch a plane to Meridian but as a place to catch a plane to London. In the dreams of the boosters, the final certification of international-city status will come when Atlanta, which has the American designation in the competition for host city...