Word: heliport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guide me," says Billy Barnes, a Manhattan talent agent. "It has changed my life-style, particularly now. People aren't smoking and drinking anymore; they aren't having sex. In this atmosphere, I find great solace from my garden." Barnes has landscaped an apartment terrace that looked like a heliport when he moved in. Stands of birches, pines and apple trees rustle in the winds on the 14th-floor roof. He smiles at his lofty thoughts. "It brings my mind out of the gutter," he adds. "If everybody could have a little plot of God's green earth...
...Olympic version of mission control is a draped cubicle deep in Piper Technical Center, a city-owned warehouse and heliport in downtown Los Angeles. Once the Games begin, representatives of all the law-enforcement agencies involved will staff the Pentagon-designed nerve center round the clock. Five large screens will project an array of security information, like the size of a traffic jam or the location of a hostage incident. Says Commander William Rathburn of the Los Angeles police department (L.A.P.D.), who will oversee the operation: " A civilian security coordination effort of this magnitude has never before been undertaken...
Moments after Prince Charles landed at Kennedy International Airport, he was whisked away in a twelve-passenger Sikorsky helicopter for a tour of Manhattan. Greeting him at the Wall Street heliport was Chief of Protocol Lee Annenberg. Bowing to criticism of her curtsy when the Prince visited Washington last month, she welcomed him this time with a modified...
...Glorious Twelfth, the Onslow Arms in the Surrey suburb of West Clandon dispatched a helicopter to the Heriot moor south of Edinburgh, and 18 still warm grouse were rushed to a London-bound plane. At Heathrow Airport, a fleet of three Ferraris sped the precious consignment to a nearby heliport, where a trio of off-duty Red Devil paratroopers and two choppers were standing by. The Devils jumped into the restaurant's car park, where they were met by chefs in running shoes, who sprinted with the birds to preheated ovens. The cost: at least $10,000. Elapsed time...