Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began an open letter to Mao Tse-tung, plastered last week to a wall in downtown Peking by a number of workers who had journeyed from Hunan province. The letter complained of foot dragging in the five-month-old campaign to promote revolutionary fervor whose symbolic targets are 1) the ancient philosopher Confucius and 2) Defense Minister Lin Piao, who allegedly died in a mysterious plane crash in September 1971. The open letter and other hand-printed posters appearing on walls throughout the country are the latest indications of an intensified drive against moderate Chinese officials...
...confusion. Baggage-handling problems have been particularly vexing, again because of overcomputerization. Passengers have complained that the system chews up their bags as voraciously as if they were hamburgers, though the operation has been improved. As a result of the snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, the distance from downtown, and the exorbitant runway fees, Braniff and Texas International have moved part of their operations back to the old Love Field, only five miles from Dallas. Delta also is considering pulling some of its flights out of the giant airport. Southwest Airlines, which never moved from Love (despite lawsuits filed...
...TIME, April 8), based on his experiences behind bars, Pinero walked away with this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the best American play. Last week, however, it seemed that Pinero might be germinating a new plot. Approaching a subway token booth in a downtown Manhattan station around 12:35 a.m., he was overtaken by a swarm of youths, who vaulted the token turnstiles and boarded a train. When the token seller cursed them as "Spanish trash," Pinero let loose with a few oaths of his own. Picked up by a transit...
...computer to begin charging the account of the proper driver. Rather than paying a mileage rate, renters will be billed at a rate of 3½? a minute, an arrangement designed to keep them moving as rapidly as possible. The Witkar is not only nonpolluting but also practical for downtown transportation-three of the Witkars occupy the space taken by a standard-sized European sedan-and it costs less than half as much as a taxi for the average trip. Next, Inventor Schimmelpennink, something of a Dutch Don Quixote, hopes to convert some abandoned windmills so his white chargers...
Eastern Sprints Champ Radcliffe will be sending both an eight and a four to the National Women's Rowing Association Championships, to be held on Lake Merrit in downtown Oakland, Calif., next weekend...