Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give the credit for the Grand Coalition's successes to the Christian Democrats. In fact, by joining the government, the Social Democrats have sacrificed the protest vote, which has ominously shifted mainly to the far-right National Democrats. In the past 15 months, the Social Democrats have lost ground in six successive state elections, slipping to a bare 29% of the vote in the most recent test in Baden-Württemberg...
...this moment! Get the gun! Get the gun! Get the gun! Stay away from the guy! Get his thumb! Get his thumb! Break it if you have to! Get the gun, Rafer! Hold him! We don't want another Oswald! Hold him, Rafer . . . The Senator is on the ground! He's bleeding profusely . . . The ambulance has been called for, and this is a terrible thing! . . . Ethel Kennedy is standing by. She is calm, a woman with a tremendous amount of presence . . . The shock is so great my mouth is dry . . . We are shaking as is everyone else...
...result, ground hang-ups often consume more of a passenger's time than the 50-minute shuttle flight from New York to Washington. In the New York-New Jersey area, the Port Authority, which runs the airports, is spending $425 million to expand Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports and is meanwhile seeking a site for one more all-new superport. Boston also needs another airfield, whose cost will be over and above the $225 million now allotted to expand Logan International. Pittsburgh, with traffic up 25% in one year, has earmarked $11,800,000 for immediate expansion. Altogether...
Slow Luggage. The crisis causes five ground delays for every holding pattern in the air. "Ground technology," says Logan's director, Richard Mooney, "is far behind airplane technology." The majority of the delays come from slow luggage handling. Last year 340 million pieces of passenger baggage were handled; by 1970 that figure will reach 545 million. Despite automated equipment, luggage usually arrives inside the terminal well after its owner. To speed delivery, many airports have stopped insisting on claim checks-with devastating results. Pilferage is up, sometimes because of organized rings of thieves. "We caught one guy with...
...Washington now, the cortege wound its way past more crowds, through the nighttime capital to the burial ground...