Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he claims not to enjoy all the publicity, Shurcliff has developed a sure public relations touch. When Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd announced that transcontinental SST's might fly subsonic over the populated eastern half of the country and then supersonic from Chicago to Califor- nia, Shurcliff immediately wrote to western political leaders pointing out how little the SST's proponents seemed to care for the west's peace and quiet...
George, 24, the newest Beatle husband (he married London Model Patti Boyd early last year), lives near by in a big white bungalow. He and his friends are daubing the outside walls with colorful cartoons, flowers and abstract designs, some in fluorescent paint that shines in the daylight. Unlike Ringo, he practices a great deal, and his music room is strewn with 12 guitars...
Married. Muhammad AH, 25, best remembered as Cassius Clay, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, now deposed and appealing a conviction for draft-dodging; and Belinda Boyd, 17, salesgirl in a Chicago Black Muslim bakery whom he has been dating for a year; he for the second time (his first marriage, to Model Sonji Roi, 27, lasted only eleven months before she got fed up with Muslim taboos); in a Baptist ceremony with additional Muslim prayers in Clay's five-room bungalow on Chicago's South Side...
...Johnson Administration said that it was inflationary. Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd said that it would "ultimately be reflected in the cost of thousands of consumer items, food, housing, and the support of our vital effort in Viet Nam." The Department of Agriculture denounced it as a move that would make the U.S. farmer carry "an unjust and unreasonable burden." Yet the Interstate Commerce Commission, after long and careful consideration, last week overrode such complaints, granted to U.S. railways a $300 million increase in freight rates...
...case of other increases, the consumer, as Secretary Boyd warned, is ultimately going to bear the burden. Some industries, notably meat packers, steel companies and chemical firms, said that competition and the threat of Government pressure might force them to absorb the higher rates. But most said they would pass the price increases along...