Word: hare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Equally important, R-Nav will permit planes to make bad-weather landings at airports that do not have approach radar or instrument landing systems; it will also speed up traffic at airports that now have the most modern controls. "It's unbelievable that Chicago's O'Hare Airport goes to about one-half capacity when IFR [instrument-flight-rules] weather moves in," says Dr. Charles Fenwick, an engineering executive at Collins Radio, a leading manufacturer of R-Nav equipment. "And that's in a world that can land men on the moon...
Last week TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, a licensed pilot, flew aboard a Grumman turboprop executive transport equipped with the Collins ANS-70 on a 350-mile test flight into Chicago. On arrival at O'Hare International Airport, Hannifin was astonished to find that the plane, guided all the way by its automatic pilot, which in turn was controlled by R-Nav, was right on course as it turned into its final approach. He is not the only one who is impressed. McDonnell Douglas has ordered the system for its new trijet DC-10, and the Russians offer...
...Month Award" have been Chicago Bears Running Back Gale Sayers and Comedian Dick Gregory. The award, presented by Holy Angels' parish in a black area of Chicago's South Side, honors outstanding contributions to the race. The current Black Man of the Month: George O'Hare, a Sears, Roebuck executive who was awarded the plaque for his work with the late Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago and his efforts to improve education and other conditions in the city's ghettos. The fact that O'Hare is white did not trouble the parish. Said Pastor...
...final smoke-filled night of competition, there were some 400 casually clad spectators in the blue tiered seats and only two players still in contention: Irving ("The Deacon") Crane and Lou ("Machine Gun") Butera. It was a classic match-up of the tortoise and the hare, introvert against extravert and experience versus enthusiasm...
...cast can both sing and dance--no small achievement. However, there's a certain needed element of farce that could be more in evidence than it is. On the male side of things, Peter Kellogg plays Johnny with appropriate ingenueity and Michael O'Hare is an authoritative enough Rhett (although he rather seems to disappear from the action during the show's second half). As Mayor DeBluesaway, Nick Wyman steals the show with imperious poise and a nimble baritone voice...