Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost group travel abroad. The International Air Transport Association, the carriers' cartel that has fixed prices on overseas tickets for 26 years, has been unable to agree on a 1973 fare structure for the heavily traveled North Atlantic routes, leaving the airlines to compete among themselves beginning Feb. 1 in an "open fare" situation. Although Pan Am officials remain worried that too much bulk flying may cut into their scheduled-service sales, air officials in Washington are convinced that U.S. carriers stand to profit from the new era. As owner of the world's biggest (30) fleet...
...Chile, Peru, Japan and India, as well as a savage volcanic eruption in Krakatoa. He was more or less dismissed by the scientific community as a lucky crackpot. But he resurfaced within the past couple of years in Laguna Beach, and astounded Californians by predicting the time and date (Feb. 9, 1971 at 6 a.m.) of the San Fernando earthquake that killed 64 people and wrought more than $500 million worth of damage. Greenspan has missed the mark before; he has thrice predicted San Francisco earthquakes. Still, between the eerie San Fernando prognostication and the grisly events in Managua, Nicaragua...
...Randers wait in mingled hope and dread for word of Sergeant First Class Donald Rander of Army Intelligence, captured at Hue on Feb. 1, 1968. Shortly thereafter two fellow soldiers who escaped reported that he had been wounded in the arm but was alive in a Viet Cong prison camp in South Viet Nam. There has been no word from Rander in five years. So his women wait, worry and try to pretend that there is holly in their hearts...
...Feb. 21 -28,1972. Nixon visits China, then goes to Russia...
...Feb. 7,1965. Viet Cong attack U.S. base at Pleiku and kill eight Americans. Johnson subsequently orders campaign of air raids against North Viet...