Word: hartsfield
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...HARTSFIELD. 27.3 million passengers last year. Averages 1,342 landings and take-offs daily. Three parallel runways, nine airlines. Delays of 30 min. or more: 1,339. Accessibility: good. Allow 15 to 45 min. for nine-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($7.50). Half-hourly limousines downtown ($3.50). Two commuter airlines. Parking: ample. Far-out lots served by shuttle bus. Flow Through: well planned. Sidewalk check-ins, baggage carts for rent (75?). One big central terminal with fingers leading to boarding areas. Longest walk: 2,680 ft. Baggage checkout: good. Hotels/Motels: plentiful. Nineteen near airport. Amenities: unambitious. Adequate lounges...
...Delta, the offspring of a crop-dusting outfit, has patiently mined the minor metropolises of the South for 42 years. It has eleven flights a day, for example, between Atlanta and Augusta, Ga. The airline's success has paralleled the rapid growth of the South. Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport has become the third busiest commercial airport in the world-after Chicago's O'Hare and the Los Angeles International Airport-and much of the traffic belongs to Delta...
...your obituary of our beloved Mayor Emeritus William B. Hartsfield [March 8] you stated, "After he retired in 1962, Atlanta named only two things after him (a gorilla and an incinerator)." During his lifetime, Mayor Emeritus Hartsfield consistently refused to allow the city to honor him in some substantive way. Now, however, the nation's fourth busiest airport is called the William B. Hartsfield Atlanta Airport...
Died. William B. Hartsfield, 80, former mayor of Atlanta, whose 231 years in office are said to be a U.S. record for service in a major city and produced the title "mayor emeritus"; of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Following an untraditional policy of racial moderation, Hartsfield guided his city through turbulent years of integration in the 1950s with the slogan "Atlanta is a city too busy to hate." After he retired in 1962, Atlanta named only two things after him (a gorilla and an incinerator), but Atlantans recognized that he had influenced the city's development more than...