Word: coast-to-coast
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...flamboyant, articulate Margo St. James during one of her frequent coast-to-coast speaking and organizing tours. COYOTE's director is optimistic that her idea will catch on throughout the country, although she quickly admits that the East is more "tight-assed" on the issue than the "mellow, laid-back" West Coast. The prostitute community has responded readily to COYOTE's call; "I feel we have a real solidarity going," St. James says. Grinning she told me: "It takes about two minutes to politicize a hooker...
...announcement last week for the Republican nomination for President, Ronald Reagan phoned Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. He would not, Reagan promised Ford, directly attack the incumbent President or do anything else that might split the party. But the next day, on a coast-to-coast TV hookup from the National Press Club in Washington, he got off at least one not so subtle whack at Ford...
...found the formula for winning customers and boosting sales, even during times of economic uncertainty?and not only in the New York area. In the next two years Bloomingdale's will open two stores near Washington, D.C., its first major geographic expansion. But its influence is already felt coast-to-coast. Says an executive of one department-store chain at the other end of the continent from Bloomingdale's, "What is happening there will be happening in Middle America six months to a year from now." Considering Bloomingdale's aggressiveness, he might not even have that long...
...souvenirs that meet the modest standards of the Government's American Revolution Bicentennial Administration pay royalties for the use of ARBA's imprimatur, and those fees-4% to 15% of sales-have so far earned the Government $700,000 to help finance such projects as a coast-to-coast bicycle trail and ten massive abstract sculptures to be constructed along Interstate 80 in Nebraska...
...commercial-air-travel market-and trying to start a fare war with the nation's big trunk airlines to win it. While Daly was off packing a .38 in Saigon last week, the line petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for authority to operate regularly scheduled coast-to-coast flights. Its proposed one-way fare between New York or Washington and Los Angeles or San Francisco: $89 plus tax, or about 25% less than the lowest transcontinental fares on United, American and TWA. Predictably, other airlines announced plans to fight the $89 fare, but said that they would...