Word: helipad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most of the guests gathered at the White House, from which vans whisked them to a makeshift helipad hard by the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument for the flight to Camp David. Arriving there, they were met by Secret Service men and ushered to the Laurel Lodge, where Carter joined them for breakfast, lunch or dinner and long postmeal talks; one lasted five hours, until from routine (steak and fresh vegetables) to exotic ("ten-boy curry," an Indian dish so named because ten mess boys supposedly are required to serve it and its condiments...
...meet with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to discuss the summit's prospects. At Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, he will probably begreeted by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who will escort him to the presidential helicopter for a 35-min. flight to Camp David's helipad. Vance is expected to remain at Andrews to meet Begin, who is due 90 min. later from New York City, where he was scheduled to spend two days resting and meeting with American Jewish leaders...
...forward right landing gear-because of "metal fatigue." Federal authorities ordered an inspection of the landing gears on all S-61s. New York community groups renewed their denunciation of the skyscraper service as unsafe, though one Washington official argued that a similar accident at a ground-level helipad might have been no less devastating. At week's end New York Airways resumed flights between three local airports, but operations from the Pan Am Building were suspended pending the outcome of the accident investigation...
With North Vietnamese rocket and artillery fire raking their converted tennis-court helipad, TIME Correspondents Roy Rowan and William Stewart, along with Photographers Dirck Halstead and Mark Godfrey, choppered out of Tan Son Nhut airport last Tuesday shortly before Communist advance units entered downtown "Ho Chi Minh city." Rowan's and Stewart's accounts of the final American evacuation, cabled from the U.S.S. Blue Ridge in the South China Sea, appear in this week's Indochina cover section...
...their part, the G.O.P. will probably end up in a city that never even considered bidding: San Diego. President Nixon seems taken with the idea of holding his renomination convention only a half-hour's hop from the Western White House helipad. The city has managed to scrape together adequate facilities, but some of the townsfolk are less than enthusiastic. Democratic Mayor Frank Curran pointed out that the city might lay out more than it would get in return. "Some of those delegates bring their own lunches and booze," he scoffed. "Some even sleep in their cars...