Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest commercial airport, sometimes was logging two-hour tieups. One frustrated Detroit-bound passenger decided to drive instead-and almost beat the plane. An English tourist in Los Angeles sampled U.S. airline hang-ups and threatened to take a ship home through the Panama Canal. A pilot flying from Bermuda to New York advised passengers on takeoff-accurately, as it turned out-of his three-hour flight plan: "Two to get there and one to circle." American Airlines reported that the previous week's average 88-min. delay...
First Since 1959. The busiest giant killers were a pair of bespectacled U.S. amateurs, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner. Ashe, ranked No. 13, polished off Okker and Australian Pro John Newcombe (No. 4); Graebner, who was unseeded, beat Aussie Pro Fred Stolle (No. 11) and Spain's Manuel Santana, who as No. 6 seed was the top-ranked amateur. Both advanced to the semifinals before losing-the first time since 1959 that two Americans had gone that...
TRADITIONALISTS may still think of Broadway and 42nd Street as the busiest corner in Manhattan. Not if they spend a warm summer afternoon walking between 50th and 51st Streets along the Avenue of the Americas. There, the crowds that congregate for a visit to the Time & Life Building's street-level Exhibition Center, and pause to relax near the fountains in the plaza, are likely to rival any on Broadway...
Even without jumbos, airports are straining at the seams. Chicago's O'Hare, the nation's busiest, handled 27 million passengers last year, and has just about reached saturation. A $200 million expansion program is under way to accommodate the 40 million travelers expected by 1975. Washington's National Airport is badly overcrowded, but passengers prefer its convenience to bigger but more distant Dulles or Friendship...
...Reckoning future population trends on the basis of his own census studies, Wood badgered Sears into opening its first retail stores, initially in the Midwest and the West. Some of the early stores served only small neighborhoods -which have long since become some of the nation's busiest urban and suburban areas...