Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear cool day in 1926, a nine-year-old boy in short pants watched a Swallow biplane circle and land at his hometown airfield in Boise, Idaho. It was the first plane he had ever seen close up. It was also the start of the first permanent scheduled airline service in the U.S. More than half a century later, TIME'S Jerry Hannifin finally realized his childhood dream by flying a restored Swallow. He has logged 2,550 hours in the air as a pilot, flying planes that ranged from a J-3 Cub to the Air Force...
That joke involves an element of true confession. The fact is that Arok isn't too bright. Without close and constant supervision, Arok would gladly vacuum the dog, pour the coffee on the rug or puree the goldfish in the Cuisinart. "For me to say that he saves me work would be ridiculous," admits Skora. "Real household androids are at least 15 years away...
Perhaps no one had asked her to go, but neither had she been encouraged to stay by anyone in the White House. Three months ago, aides close to Carter turned over the bulk of her duties to Anne Wexler, 48, a liberal Democratic Party veteran, and moved Costanza from a spacious office near Carter's to a cubbyhole in the White House basement...
...happened, he would have been better off at home. Toward midnight, as the party drew to a close, a still unidentified guest picked up a bowl of chocolate mousse and flung it at Jordan-all over his blue suit, all over his shirt and tie-then fled out the door...
Gareth Jones brings a pleasant tenor to the straight role of the half-mortal Strephon, and Kenneth Sandford, who has been with the troupe for more than two decades, is a sturdy Private Willis (he will be giving something close to his 2100th performance as Pooh-Bah in The Mikado here...