Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a touch of surrealism as a green Paris bus and a red London double-decker plied Manhattan's Madison Avenue, all for the sake of getting art lovers there in time. There was gracious classicism as 2,000 gallerygoers in black tie and Balenciagas raced up and down 22 city blocks all evening long, trying to take in one another, champagne, and a staggering array of art works. There was even pop enthusiasm as girls in thigh-high miniskirts buzzed to and fro on the back seats of motorcycles...
Christopher had his own room with a double-decker bunk. With both beds free, less adventurous types probably would have found the lower bunk more convenient. But not Pardee. He deliberately chose the upper berth, I think, so that he could leap up and land on his back...
...building where the Saturn V will be assembled. "You could put the Pentagon and the Chicago Merchandise Mart inside it," said NASA guide Henry Decker, who can tell you every detail of every building on the Cape...
...employees with particular solicitude. A "private's general," he takes pride in the good chow and creature comforts that soften a draftee's adjustment to military life. New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands. At Fort Jackson, S.C., and Fort Dix, N.J., drafty, double-decker wooden barracks are giving way to modern brick buildings that resemble campus dormitories. They have bathrooms on every level, rooms with from two to eight bunks, telephones, lounge rooms and Laundromats. There are automatic dishwashers and potato-peeling machines for K.P. duty...
Gilliland made his own contribution to the Frisco's good profit picture in the late 1950s, when he coordinated the road's industry-leading development of two-and three-decker automobile carriers. Last year the Frisco hauled 250,000 cars and trucks on tracks that run through nine states (but come no closer to San Francisco than Floydada, Texas...