Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as it hit the forward fuselage of the three-jet Boeing 727, the twin-engined Cessna disintegrated in a yellow fireball. For a few seconds, the bigger plane looked like a wounded quail struggling for control. Then, still airborne, it too exploded, raining debris over a mile-and-a-half area near Hendersonville, N.C. "I could see bodies falling like confetti," said a witness. One crashed through the roof of a house. Another fell in a filling station, others on highways and trees. Miraculously, no one on the ground was injured. But all 82 people aboard the two planes...
...Israelis were also becoming aggressive about details. They insisted that the cease-fire line at Suez went right down the middle of the canal, and were ready to drop their little patrol boats into the water to establish legal precedent for the later passage of bigger Israeli shipping. The Egyptians, who insist that the cease-fire line is on the east bank, captured one boat, warned that any others put into the canal would be blasted out of the water. At week's end the only penetration of the canal was by some dusty Israeli troopers trying to cool...
...Bigger Haul. One factor in the improvement of movie fortunes is the success of road shows, the reserved-seat blockbusters that are increasingly occupying the major theaters. "Road shows," says 20th Century-Fox President Darryl Zanuck, "have put motion back in motion pictures and put the industry back in high gear." It was Zanuck's exploitation of the road show, beginning with The Longest Day in 1962, that turned the Fox ledger's $40 million loss that year into a $12.5 million gain in 1966. Altogether this year, the studios will release eight road-show films, next year...
...Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon. He was barely able to conceal his anger over the suggestion that U.S. forces were not being used at full efficiency. It seemed he was taking a bum rap so the President and McNamara could hold down the budget deficit and avert a bigger tax increase...
...Disquietude. Major labor contracts, covering 3,100,000 workers, expire in the U.S. this year (the figure was only 980,000 in 1966), and the biggest wave of strikes since 1959 seems only too likely. Not surprisingly, most labor leaders share Reuther's belief that workers deserve a bigger slice of last year's record corporate profits. Few major contracts expired in 1966, however, and corporate profits are off this year. As University of Chicago Labor Specialist Arnold R. Weber puts it, "Now that the unions are able to get to the bargaining table, the pickings...