Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-day walkout by 34,400 mechanics and other ground service workers of the International Association Machinists against Eastern, National, Northwest, Trans World, and United Airlines affects more than 150,000 air passengers...
...illustrate Brutus' considerateness of others. Fifteen-year-old Alan Howard plays him ardently and appealingly. When he falls asleep in the midst of singing and plucking his harp, Brutus affectionately covers him with a gown. When, after the battle at Philippi, Lucius is carried in, lain on the ground and tenderly shrouded in a blanket, one is more moved than by the death of any of the play's principals...
...carriers, British European Airways, which carries more passengers than any other airline outside the U.S., was in continuing turbulence. Sir Anthony Milward, chairman of the state-owned BEA, passed the trouble off as a "bad patch" of flying; passengers characterized it as a chronic inability to get off the ground in proper flying time...
...every year but two in the past ten. Its safety record is excellent-six fatal air crashes in two decades, only two of them since 1960-and its pilots are the very model of sturdy British reliability. BEA's troubles are not in the air but on the ground. The line seems unable to service its planes or passengers...
...hand, he continued, thousands of villagers are leaving the countryside and coming to the cities, which would imply that the Viet Cong will have fewer people to fall back on. The United States will probably be able to control major territories if it sends in upwards of 450,000 ground troops, but Craig wondered if this would be winning...