Word: coast-to-coast
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...cutting first-class frills. Patterson claims, airlines could provide coast-to-coast service on a one-class basis at fares only $10 over present coach rates. Coach sections, he declared, are often overcrowded beyond the safety limit for emergency evacuation. Sixteen coach passengers were suffocated, apparently waiting their turn to get out of a United plane, intact but burning, that crashed last year...
...Germ Carriers." Teacher Rinker is now executive director of a coast-to-coast rescue squad called the Commission on English, which the College Entrance Examination Board launched in 1959 with $1,000,000. A top priority: re-educating teachers. Says Harvard Professor Harold Martin, chairman of the commission...
Finally we've seen two great teams eventually pull ahead of their leagues, and we can look forward to the first coast-to-coast World Series and probably one of the best in history. There may be rioting in Africa, but baseball fans wouldn't ask for more...
...written, under her own name and pseudonyms, at least 100 books Edmund Wilson has never heard of. Editors loved her because she was dependable and fast. Once, with no perceptible quickening in pace, she clicked off a 12,000-word novella during a four-day coast-to-coast train ride. ''Sometimes," she admits, "the stories didn't come out very dimensional...
...September 1959 a seven-man French explorer-adventurer task force headed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, together with 60 native bearers, began a south-to-north, coast-to-coast trek across Netherlands New Guinea from the Arafura Sea over the central barrier through a 150-mile pocket of jungle which no white man had ever charted. Seven months and 1,000 winding miles later, having logged temperatures from near freezing to as high as 132° Fahrenheit and altitudes of up to 12,000 ft., Gaisseau and his radio engineer, Herve de Maigret. staggered out to the mocking serenity...