Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United, the domestic carrier that is the nation's biggest airline (1967 revenues: $1 billion), lost its bid to go international, but was given a chance to tap new mainland cities for its rich Hawaiian trade, which already accounts for a third of its earnings...
...Eastern, which as recently as 1963 was shaky enough to ask for a $33 million subsidy, got a chance to change from a domestic carrier into a major international airline, giving Pan Am its first U.S.-flag competition in such South Pacific areas as New Zealand, Tahiti and the Fiji Islands-not from U.S West Coast cities (which Pan Am serves), but from eleven mainland points plus Mexico City and Acapulco...
...long, he and other TV newsmen have been warding off a chilly gale of complaints from Senators, Congressmen, city officials, policemen and viewers in general. The most frequent charge leveled by the critics is that television, with its vast reach and visual impact, is in a sense the germ carrier that spreads the plague of riots across the U.S. The question, in short, is whether the sight of a Harlem youth hurling a brick through a store window and shouting "Black Power!" induces a ghetto teen ager in Detroit to do the same...
Olympic lost money at first, but Onassis has since built it into a flourishing carrier. Meanwhile, he has twice persuaded the Greek government to extend his original 20-year concession, first to 1986 and then to 2006. To Niarchos, that was too much. In a formal appeal, he argued that the extension beyond 1986 should have been open to fresh bidding. Last week Greece's highest tribunal rejected Niarchos' appeal. "There is no proof," said the Council of State, "that the petitioner will preserve his interest to take over the concession at that distant date." Of course, there...
Grown Americans Do. When the exhibit opened, the viewers certainly participated-but not always in ways that had been anticipated. On the third day, some 80-odd flower children staged a swarm-in, temporarily seized the personnel carrier and the copter, and forced the museum to close down the exhibit for half an hour. Pickets 150 strong showed up outside, carrying signs reading L.B.J.'S HEAD START TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO KILL. A group called Veterans for Peace in Viet Nam fired off a letter to the Army condemning the show as a "do-it-yourself massacre." A delegation...