Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem to be the man to get terribly excited about one more western. In 35 years he has appeared in nine plays and made 73 films that have grossed more than $190 million. On Broadway this spring, during ten successful weeks, he re-created his classic portrayal of Elwood P. Dowd, the bibulous dreamer whose pal was an imaginary rabbit named Harvey. But the role of the guileless cowboy caught in a web of goodnatured immorality is as much a part of the Stewart myth as the tremulous, pleasantly nasal accent that has made him the world's most...
...seen. At about $40 million per plane (v. $23 million per jumbo jet), the U.S. SST has also left many people wondering whether such huge sums should be spent merely to get a relatively small number of travelers across the Atlantic and Pacific a few hours faster. Elwood Quesada, who was the Federal Aviation Agency's first administrator and is currently an American Airlines board member, frankly told the congressional subcommittee: "The feeling among airline executives is to wish that the SST would go away...