Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although state officials shut down the ski lift on 14,162-ft. Mount Shasta last April, intrepid skiers and snow bunnies are still skimming down high-altitude snow fields that are up to 25 feet deep. State officials welcome the snow pack for another reason. Explains Bill Clark, spokesman for the department of water resources: "It's like having water in the bank." Backpackers complain the snow is hindering their hiking into parts of the Sierras they were barred from visiting last year because of the high fire danger...
...country that is least capable of recovery made the boldest promises. Premier Giulio Andreotti pledged to tame inflation and lift Italy's economic growth rate to 3.7% by cutting government expenditures, reducing welfare outlays and funneling more funds into industry. Milan's Corriere della Sera called Andreotti's pledges "gambling Italy's credibility...
...caper he is entangled in, playing a detective, is about a group of antireligious fanatics who plan to assassinate the Pope during a visit to San Francisco. Hawn becomes the unwitting recipient of information about their plot when she gives a lift to an undercover cop. As the conventions of this sort of movie demand, Hawn has a hard time getting anyone to believe that 1) she is in danger and 2) something big is going on. Finally, of course, unavoidable evidence develops, and we cut to the chase. Alas, Director Colin Higgins has no higher skill in staging action...
Last week, after spending the day on the estate, he got a lift to the local train station with his secretary in her 1965 Mustang. As they rounded a curve, they collided head-on with a car driven by a 16-year-old boy. Rockefeller, 72, and the boy were killed instantly; the secretary and a woman in a third car were injured. The accident occurred only a mile from the 3,200-acre family estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., that was the childhood home of John and his brothers...
...Passengers, accustomed to the sardine seating in the present jumbos, will find the 767 less claustrophobic. The coach section will have seven seats abreast, aligned in a two-three-two pattern, with two aisles. The 767's flying characteristics will incorporate a new wing, which provides for more lift with less surface than other designs, and highly sophisticated guidance and automatic landing systems for all-weather operations...