Word: coast-to-coast
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...cheap fares are a carefully staged tactic to fill up World Airways' planes once again. A year ago, the line's cut-rate, $99 coast-to-coast flights were soaring at 80% capacity, when the grounding of all DC-10s after the American Airlines crash in Chicago idled its cross-country fleet. As soon as the DC-10s were again cleared for takeoff, the line was hit by a four-month strike of pilots, mechanics and stewardesses demanding higher pay. Since World finally got back in the air last January, an average of only...
...sincerity and with the strain of endless campaigning. "I wish students would look into the entire problem, so they could see the refutation that is available," he says. Now expansive, leaning back, reciting Guiness-Book evidence. "Even Three Mile Island, and that was worst, had less radiation than flying coast-to-coast on an airplane. Less radiation than living at the altitude of Denver." Reassuring, even compassionate now, Reagan switches topics; he counsels young people not to protest against the draft, for it will only make them look "silly and unpatriotic," just like "those ones in the sixties...
...United States, chaos and television reign. Teddy Kennedy made it to the White House all right, but "Camelot II" became "The Ten Days" when surgeon-general designate Dr. Allen Bakke (appointed to gain white middle-class support) botched an operation. "Now I remember," sobbed Bakke on coast-to-coast television. 'It's two kidneys, one liver...
...million for local Republican candidates. In recent months he has spent several hours a week being briefed intensively on both foreign and domestic issues by Martin Anderson, a former White House adviser in the Nixon Administration and an economist. Meanwhile, Reagan's campaign staff has built the biggest coast-to-coast organization of any G.O.P. candidate...
...Great Wall of China attracted record crowds during a coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. On a "mission of mercy" to Chad, est Founder Werner Erhard urged natives to "take responsibility for your own starvation" and was promptly eaten. Alarmed at declining election turnouts, the Administration offered free toasters to anyone who voted. Congress made 1984 the Year of the Total Recall when it ordered the return of everything manufactured...