Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Fort Worth decided in 1927 that it needed a commercial airport, the town fathers choked back civic rivalry with nearby Dallas long enough to propose a joint effort. Dallas huffily declined, buying the Army's Love Field instead. But in the mid-'60s, the cities overcame their animosity and agreed to build the world's largest airport, 17 miles from each downtown area. Local boosters are spending over half a million dollars to inaugurate the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, climaxing this week with a four-day Texas bash of balls, banquets and barbecues. Among the scheduled guests...
...worst problem seems to be getting there in the first place. The Dallas and Fort Worth city councils, claiming a monopoly on ground transportation to the airport, are being sued by Continental Bus Systems Inc., which wants a piece of the action. While the matter remains snagged in the courts, the only way to go is by that old environmental nemesis, the automobile. Even that will not be easy, because traffic jams seem certain to develop on behind-schedule highway approaches...
...cost a lot, but it was nothing compared with the repeat business we get because kids insist on going there." Indeed, not a few mothers have found that their children prefer Ray Kroc's burgers to Mom's own. "It's a fun place," says a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 13-year-old. "It's like a circus. I feel happy here...
Happy Home. Many of the youths exhibit surprising dedication. Pilferage runs only about $30 per month per outlet, a percentage of sales far below the average for all retailing. Wade Litchenberg, 18, a night manager in Fort Lauderdale, describes his job as "a real challenge. I love it-meeting people, learning all about the business." Says Lynnette Myers, 18, of Jackson, Miss.: "It's a happy place to work. It's my home away from home...
Chronologically, the images stretch from the first page of the first story in the first issue-a Saturday night in Fort Peck, Mont., in 1936, where WPA workers are whooping it up at a local saloon -to a recent moment when Dick Cavett made fun of TV talk shows by interviewing Louis, his own poodle. The book embraces one Depression, five wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face...