Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenge the smugness of the American celebration of the nineteen-fifties. In response to liberal academics like S.M. Lipset, Daniel Bell, and others who maintained that fundamental conflict was absent in post-industrial America, and that decisions about the direction of society were purely technical, SDS's founding charter--the Port Huron Statement--condemned a "perverted democracy" that permitted "disastrous policies to go unchallenged time and again." These charges--which seem mild in retrospect--represented a sharp break with the political past in a pre-Vietnam, pre-Watts America...
...Impartial. The U.N. Charter originally specified only that the General Assembly should vote on a candidate recommended by the Security Council. The first Secretary-General, Trygve Lie of Norway, was an energetic labor leader who earned the enmity of Russia by organizing the U.N. defense of South Korea. When he left office, the Soviets objected to more than a dozen prominent candidates and finally agreed to the obscure Dag Hammarskjold only because they mistakenly thought he was a colorless bureaucrat. When Hammarskjold proved to be a vigorous leader who heavily committed U.N. troops and funds in the Congolese civil...
This personal interest by the boss has lifted U.A.L.'s morale despite the layoffs. Since Carlson took over, an employee-organized sales effort has brought in some $5,000,000 of revenue. In Chicago, a United janitor organized a charter flight to Los Angeles for his bowling group. A San Jose mechanic babysat for a neighbor flying on United to Hawaii...
...Amsterdam, Dutch police seized a planeload of Czech-made arms flown from Prague and allegedly intended for the outlawed Irish Republican Army to use in its campaign to oust British troops from Ulster. They also arrested the Belgian pilot of the charter aircraft and an American who was charged with importing arms without a license...
...introduction of jumbo jets last year increased the number of available seats at a time when the general economic downturn was sharply reducing the supply of available passengers. On the crowded North Atlantic run, where Pan Am and 23 other scheduled airlines are fighting it out with the aggressive charter carriers, the company lost $7,000,000 last year. Meeting the bargain-basement transatlantic fares recently announced by Germany's Lufthansa, Halaby estimates, could cost as much as $30 million in losses next year. And Pan Am's payroll is rising by an average of 16% a year...