Word: hops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand-by space available on a desired flight, many have caught on to the trick of phoning in a false reservation in advance, then showing up at flight time to take the fictitious no-show's seat. In one of the newer ploys, called "one stop through hop," two teen-age girls recently boarded a New York-to-Minneapolis Northwest Airlines flight with half-fare tickets good only through an intermediary stop, Milwaukee. Gambling that the stewardesses wouldn't check, they kept their seats in Milwaukee, went on to Minneapolis for free...
...they prepare for their Puerto Rico trip coming in a week, the trackmen still have large gaps in their ranks. They need back-up sprinters for Andersen and Lynch, more depth in the javelin, broad jump, and the hop-skin and jump. Their early meets should be easy--they start off on April 16 against Brown--but they face an incredibly fired-up Army in the Outdoor Heps...
...Aircraft's St. Louis plant, where the Gemini 9 capsule they were to pilot next May was abuilding. To both, the flight had become almost as routine as driving to work. To both, the twin-engine T-38 jet trainer they boarded last week for the 90-minute hop to St. Louis must have seemed about as tame as a tricycle...
When he left Washington, the President practically picked the executive branch bare. Aboard Air Force One with him on the 11-hr., 4,946-mi. hop to Honolulu were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Earle Wheeler. A surprise passenger was 17-year-old Kathy Westmoreland, the general's oldest daughter and a student at Washington's National Cathedral School. En route separately were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Maxwell Taylor...
...world's copper supply informally banded together to provide an artificial stability in the form of a set world price. Still copper's willful ways seemed uncontainable. A year ago, the companies pegged their price at 32½?, Then, in May, they saw fit to let it hop to 36?. In November 20 more were added-except for companies producing and selling within the U.S., which rolled back to the 36? line at President Johnson's urging. And now, less than three months later, the "fixed" world price had come unstuck again...