Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Later. When the plane touched down in Miami, the cabin rang with cheers and applause. And why not? Though the flight took four hours (v. 2 hrs. 15 min. for a jet), club members were paying only $111 each for round-trip air fare, two days of food and lodging, and a ticket to the game -nearly one-third less than the cheapest Super Bowl package offered by the airlines. And one economy leads to another. Social Worker John Butler, 58, joined the Roamers in early December, "so I could do my Christmas shopping in St. Croix." There are also...
...still find ample superordinate goals. The possibilities range from tutoring slum kids to organizing block councils, restoring old houses, sailing a sloop to Ireland and running Pop for political office. Steve Hutchison, an Oregon artist, rancher and father of two young sons, offers more ideas: "Build a summer cabin, save the hoot owl, collect thunder eggs, build a telescope, pioneer in Alaska, which desperately needs able people." If the family still lacks a common crisis, says Hutchison, "Hire a wolf to howl at the door...
...stewardesses-on both airlines' 490-passenger Boeing 747 jumbo jets, due for delivery starting in 1969. Meanwhile, to cut capitalization costs as well as facilitate joint servicing, TWA will work with Boeing to make sure that design specifications on both fleets, covering everything from cockpit layout to cabin color schemes, are the same...
Clearing the Cabin. Coddling of passengers goes just so far, though, and the airlines have yet to devise baggage rules that keep everybody happy. Because too many people have been sneaking aboard with everything from caged pets to rubber trees and stuffed elk heads, the FAA last month flatly prohibited carry-on luggage too big to fit beneath seats (which generally accommodate packages 9 in. high, 13 in. wide, 23 in. long). As one result, American Airlines has stocked O'Hare Airport in Chicago with hundreds of cardboard containers for items plucked from their customers' arms. As another...
...Heisman Trophy in 1951 has an Ivy League football player so captured the public fancy as has Dowling, a 6-ft. 2-in., 195-lb. junior from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who turned down 100 scholarship offers to go to Yale-because, as his father put it: "Why go cabin class when you can go first class?" With Brian at quarterback, says a teammate, "You never know what's going to happen-but you know that you're not going to lose...