Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month that holiday travel starts to soar, and this year vacationers will be offered a bagful of bargains in air fares−thanks in large part to an unlikely bureaucrat named Alfred Kahn. A lean, balding, hatchet-faced man who teeters back and forth in his high-backed leather chair, Kahn, 60, looks like a restless hawk. The image is apt. In less than a year as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he has outdone any of his predecessors in shooing the airlines out of the cozy hen house of Government supervision that has protected and confined them...
...stage for the life he moves in," she says. But for fear that perfection would itself be an imperfection, Bunny carries with her a pair of scissors, notes Capote. "When things are looking a little too neat, she takes a little snip out of a chair or something so that it will have that lived-in look...
George Arnold turned the television set to the Red Sox game, made an about-face and slumped in the nearest chair. Well, George, how did you do today? "I just hit it rude," answered the Crimson's sixth-ranked linkster, "and shot an 83. That's the only...
...highchair attempting to eat with a fork. The fork suddenly gets out of his hand, falling to the floor. Someone kindly hands him another and shortly it too falls to the floor. The third time we are all watching. The child slowly leans toward the side on his chair and intently follows the fork as he again drops it to the floor. Has he experienced directly some order in the world? He is no Newton. He cannot write it down. He may not even be able to think it. But has he not just discovered, in a practical sense...
...steel in Vance's chronically ailing back. (A ruptured disc has bothered him ever since 1966, forcing an operation in 1967 and requiring him to wear a body cast for a time. His back has grown less troublesome, although he eases it at times by relaxing in a rocking chair in his office.) Adds Mondale: "He'll fight on principle. But he doesn't run up the flag five times a day to show who's boss." A Vance aide concurs, declaring, "He fights like a son of a bitch. But when the decision is made...