Word: cab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disaster." The engine on Scott's VC 10 cut out, and the pilot had to jettison fuel for 25 minutes before returning to Heathrow airport to trade planes. "After that," says Scott, "my Volkswagen expired ignominiously on the Massachusetts Turnpike, and I showed up for work in the cab of a tow truck...
...from parking lot to terminal, then on to the departure gate through hundreds of yards of echoing, aseptic corridors. Another is the need to stand in line: passengers must queue up to check in, make phone calls, grab a bite to eat, use the toilet, claim baggage, hail a cab. The whole airport experience sometimes becomes such an ordeal that just to enter the airplane is itself a relief...
...extensive-if not always clearly defined-services in Southeast Asia. The line has at various times employed such Democratic stalwarts as Lloyd Hand, Pierre Salinger and Clark Clif ford's law firm. Nixon ordered all of Continental's awards canceled or deferred, partly on grounds that the CAB should authorize direct service to the South Pacific from points in the East and Midwest. That could open new horizons for financially ailing Eastern Air Lines, whose Pacific ambitions were endorsed by a CAB examiner but ignored by Johnson...
...Nathan La Franeer, she views New York while riding with a crabby, avaricious cab driver...
...Only the CAB's decision later this month will tell whether Youth Fare is really dead or whether it faces, at best, another reprieve and another era of controversy. If the CAB does kill the Fare, or if the courts kill it at some time in the future, only special Congressional legislation can resurrect it. Senator Percy has in fact proposed such legislation, but even if his bill in its present form would be feasible (and some Hill veterans doubt that it would be), no one knows when, if at all, Congress will enact...