Word: cantonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through precise scheduling and by ridding it of its small-town runs. Barnes also runs a marketing and planning division that probably is the best in the industry. Two years ago, he inspired a joint ticketing and routing operation with Pan American that enables an Allegheny passenger in, say, Canton, Ohio, or Lexington, Ky., to buy a single ticket straight through to Paris or any other Pan Am stop. In 1973 the program took in $5.3 million, 90% more than the previous year...
...grand jury accused the Guardsmen of violating the civil rights of the demonstrators by assaulting and intimidating them. Five defendants-Lawrence A. Shafer, 28, and James D. McGee, 27, both of Ravenna, Ohio; William E. Perkins, 28, of Canton, Ohio; James E. Pierce, 29, of Amelia Island, Fla.; and Ralph W. Zoller, 27, of Mantua, Ohio -were charged with felonies for the four deaths. If convicted, all could be sentenced from one year to life in prison. The other three defendants-Barry W. Morris, 29, of Kent; Mathew J. McManus, 28, of West Salem, Ohio; and Leon H. Smith...
...lunch the guides told us they had scheduled a meeting that night with a member of the Canton Revolutionary Committee. We had to prepare our questions and give them to the interpreters. They would select those they felt most suitable, and answer no others...
...pretty shart notice. We had to turn in all the qustions before we finished lunch. That meant trying to think up something to ask and at the same time paying attention to the guides during our last tour of Canton. It was especially hard to think about the meeting while we were watching hospital patients receive acupuncture treatment that afternoon. We scribbled down general questions like "How many minority people are on the Revolutionary Committee?", "How are the members of the committee chosen?" and "How long do the members serve?" Somebody asked "Who chooses the committee members?" Another question sought...
...Revolutionary Party spokesman, introduced to us as a "man in charge of a number of functions under the Revolutionary Committee of Canton," was Liu Shou-Shien, the party's general secretary. He didn't speak English so we conversed through the Chinese interpreters...