Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great struggles in our nation in these times cannot be contained within our good and faithful Constitution. Time has passed it by. The message at the heart of our agony in this century is this: we need a new charter. James T. Anderson
...manager. "All we get this year are the young backpackers, touring Europe on the cheap." Applications for U.S. passports this year have fallen by 15%. Ac cording to the latest figures, passenger travel across the North Atlantic on scheduled airlines is down by 4% and off by 27% on charter flights. One reason of course is that air fares have jumped by about one-third in the past year, largely because jet-fuel prices have climbed so high. Longer trips are especially forbidding; thus many Japanese and Brazilians as well as Americans have never got off the ground...
Wiped Tapes. The CIA did not at first report the incident to the FBI or the Senate Watergate committee, the report charges, because CIA officials feared that Pennington might have operated as a domestic agent, possibly in violation of the agency's charter. Not until last February was the information released to the Ervin committee, and then only because a CIA employee stubbornly insisted on it. Explaining its delay in taking action, the CIA claims that its director of security did not learn of the McCord episode until last February...
...Give God a solo!" the audiences shouted. In reply, a thin young man with an electric guitar would shuffle to the microphone, close his eyes and raise up a musical inferno. One of the first of the '60s superstars, Eric Clapton was a charter member of rock's inner circle-along with Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. As a member of the British trio Cream, he transformed simple blues lines into brilliant horizontal diffusions of sound. By 1970 Clapton was considered to be the world's top rock guitarist, had sold some $12 million...
Communio's first issue last April-crisply written and including articles by progressives-suggests that it will be the conservative journal most worth reading. But Hitchcock warns that the magazine will not be looking for novelty. "Vatican II was not a charter for endless change," he says. Some questions are "closed." Among them: whether homosexual acts can be morally permissible (no); whether divorced Catholics can be permitted to remarry (no); whether the Christology of the ancient church councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon can be modified...