Word: heliport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bowing to conservationist pressures, Secretary Hickel agrees to convert California's last Redwood into a national monument. Hickel personally supervises the task of digging an elevator shaft to its top, where he opens a small heliport. Trish Nixon breaks her engagement to George Hamilton, reported honeymooning with Mark Rudd in Elkton...
Soon the convenience of such close-in facilities will be available to a far wider public. Preliminary approval has been given to Pan Am's proposal to build a new heliport at 61st Street on the East River, which will service both private and commercial copters. Pan Am and New York City are also planning to build a 2,400-ft.-long runway out over the Hudson River between 59th and 68th Streets to handle S.T.O.L. (short takeoff and landing) planes that can carry up to 60 passengers, fly off airstrips as short...
Immediately, New York's proposed new heliport and stolport will be used to improve connections between Manhattan and its small outlying satellite fields in Teterboro, N.J., Farmingdale, L.I., and Westchester County. The objective is to encourage private planes to use the satellite fields instead of the presently more convenient but overworked commercial jetports-Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark-to which small planes contribute 40% of the combined traffic during rush hours, and at La Guardia alone...
...Mayor Lindsay, notfiied of the demonstration, flew by police helicopter from the Wall Street heliport to an airfield in Brooklyn. A few minutes later his black sedan drew up behind the crowd of shouting protestors. As he stepped out of the car and was recognized, there was sudden silence...
Casteau (pop. 1,800) is so small and undistinguished that it does not even rate a line in Michelin's guidebook. But it has some old red brick barracks on an 800-acre military reservation. By next spring, construction teams intend to throw up a modern headquarters, heliport, and 600 prefabricated houses for SHAPE'S staff of about 2,000 men and their numerous dependents. The cost -$43 million-will be shared by the 14 surviving NATO military members. France avoided a share of the bill by withdrawing from NATO's military committee...