Word: hoppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suspense built unbearably in the duration contest after the first competitor's plane curled insolently around a light and spiralled slowly to the floor. Would his :5.2 time be beaten? It seemed impossible until Sanford Rugens stepped to the stage and with a graceful hop flung his hand high...
...years ago dropped it as a scheduled stop; United and Delta still serve the city, but outbound travelers have to scramble for seats on planes already filled before they reach the city's Baer Field. The result is that Fort Wayne, in an age when most businessmen jet-hop to business appointments, is hurting...
...films are given to leather-jacketed couriers who hop on motorcycles and rush to the studio while the reporter chases down the next subject for camera and sound crews. By the time the reporter himself gets back to the studio he sometimes finds that the producer has put his story together in a surprising manner. After being told that he will be given 10 seconds in which to mouth an introduction to a 20-second slice of film, with perhaps 15 seconds of narrative later on, the reporter is likely to explode: "Yeah, but when do I get to tell...
Miss Fox, 70 years old and only 4-ft. 11-in. tall, studies biology, but enjoys her modern-jazz dance class best. Leaping with the kids, she boasts: "I can do everything the rest of them can do, except hop on one foot." Mrs. Cottingham came to class at the urging of her husband, Wayne, 70, who retired as an Associated Press editor in Manhattan to study the stock market under the university's economists. Ernest Jones, 66, a bearded Northwestern lumberjack who frittered away a $6,000 bankroll before he heard about the Kentucky program, is studying German...
...From a $37.8 million loss in 1963, Eastern rebounded to a $29.7 million profit last year, managed to make the best return on investment (12.8%) among the big lines; TWA was second at 12.2% . But Eastern is still held down by the fact that it has too many short-hop routes to use jets efficiently; the average Eastern passenger travels a mere 310 miles. Hall has therefore flung Eastern headlong into the competition with eight other U.S. airlines, including TWA, United and American, for lucrative transpacific-route rights now held only by Pan Am and Northwest...