Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mysterious Chemistry. Other flyers were waiting for the good weather of spring to try the distance. Learning that Atlantic squalls would soon lift, Lindbergh decided to be first and lifted off from Long Island's Roosevelt Field even before the weather turned. The Spirit was so weighted with fuel that he cleared the telephone lines at the end of the runway by only 20 feet. His route took him up through New England, over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, past the green southern tips of Ireland and England, and finally over the Channel to France...
...turns out that Eileen Letchworth, fiftyish, the actress who has been Margo Flax for the past two years, had her real-life face surgically elevated earlier in the month. The show's relentless producers, recognizing a heart-rending episode when they saw one, arranged for art to imitate lift. Margo and Eileen are facing their new face with equanimity: "It's no different from having one's hair colored or teeth capped." Or eyes debagged, an off-screen drama that Actress Letchworth lived through seven years...
...President and his aides are taking a new look at all sorts of policy proposals. Two old ideas resurfaced to make headlines last week: raise gasoline taxes 10? per gal., or $ 10 billion a year, to reduce energy consumption and help swing the federal budget toward a surplus; gradually lift price controls from domestic crude oil to further discourage energy use. Neither proposal is likely to be embraced by the President at a time when slowing price rises is his chief domestic concern, but the two do illustrate how wide-and controversial-is the range of ideas that the Administration...
...silkiness of untouched pages, the uncreased bindings smooth like a pond on a summer's day, the rugged smell of newsprint only shortly removed from the presses, all make for an experience sensual in its own perverse way. At times, when I feel certain no one is looking, I lift an open text to my face and inhale deeply, and, like Marcel Proust biting into a tea-soaked madeleine, I receive visions of things past, of old books caressed, old authors befriended, of vicarious adventures of childhood...
There was no doubt that the W.F.L.'s debut got a lift from the bitter and protracted strike by National Football League players. Until last week, when the walkout halted for a 14-day "cooling off' period and striking veterans began reporting to training camp, the established league's exhibition season had been a disaster with rookies and free agents playing humdrum football in half-empty stadiums. Even if the strike is settled soon, the rancor between owners and strikers-not to mention bad blood between strikers and veterans who crossed picket lines-promises to linger through...