Word: giant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More than half a century later, TIME'S Jerry Hannifin finally realized his childhood dream by flying a restored Swallow. He has logged 2,550 hours in the air as a pilot, flying planes that ranged from a J-3 Cub to the Air Force's giant B-52G. An unabashed aerophile who has never let his FAA license expire, Hannifin goes by a simple credo: "I fly whenever I get the chance." He drew on his lifetime of enthusiasm-and his 32-year career at TIME as an aerospace expert-to file for our cover story...
...specter of unbridled price cutting and route grabbing frightens many financial experts, who fear that some lines will not be able to earn the returns needed to justify large loans. One airline financial officer calls the CAB'S free-enterprising Chairman Albert Kahn "an intellectual giant and a commercial idiot...
...occasion was Origins 78, the fourth U.S. national war gamers' conference. For 72 hours, some 3,600 hobbyists, exhibitors and camp followers milled and argued, chattered and competed in a giant tournament. To Paul Wood, 35, chief conference organizer and president of the hosting club, Metro Detroit Gamers, the event was as simple as a military tune: "It's nice to get together, drink a few beers, and have a good time combatting each other." In fact, the whole affair was as complex as, well, a war. All weekend, participants were indulging in the seductive impulse to establish...
...Youth Festival dedicated to the theme of "anti-imperialist solidarity." Brigades of volunteers from the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, as Cuba's auxiliary political watchdog apparatus is called, are working six days a week to spruce up the capital for what promises to be a giant pep rally on behalf of national liberation movements-and, by implication, on behalf of Cuba's own policy of armed intervention in Africa. "We must be reminded from time to time that keeping our own revolution alive does not mean just study and consolidation," says Jesús Sais...
...central fact of Cuban economic life is the 16-year-old U.S. trade embargo, or "blockade," as the Cubans call it. One of the political realities that make Castro's brand of totalitarianism easier for the Cubans to accept is the looming hostility of Cuba's giant neighbor to the north...