Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baltimore's Colts trailed the New York Giants 17-14. Johnny Unitas, Baltimore quarterback, glanced quickly at the clock. In the next 2 min. 30 sec. he had to move the Colts from their own 20-yd. line into field-goal range, tie the score and force the first sudden-death playoff in a National Football League championship game...
Unitas had to do the job against the toughest defense in pro football. The Giants' defensive team had already blocked a Colt field-goal try, smeared Unitas himself at crucial moments, made a devastating goal-line stand inside its own 5-yd. line and had roared back from a 14-3 half-time deficit on the wings of aging (37) Quarterback Charley Conerly's passes for two touchdowns...
Pickets paraded around the Chicago headquarters of the A.F.L.-C.I.O Air Line Pilots Association last week carrying placards: "Thanks for the Merry Christmas, A.L.P.A." "You've Got $28,000 Now. What More Do You Want?" "A.L.P.A., the Company-Busting Union." The pickets were American Airlines reservations agents protesting the strike by 1,500 pilots of American, the nation's biggest line and the sixth one immobilized by labor strife...
American's clerks, who will be laid off unless the dispute is settled by Jan. 4, were not the only ones angry because the line was grounded. Letters of protest poured in by the hundreds to the A.L.P.A. from state Governors. U.S. Congressmen, would-be passengers...
...cockpit should be a pilot or a flight engineer (TIME, May 5). At first, American President C. R. Smith figured that adding a third pilot would be plain featherbedding. Smith changed his mind after American's operations men, who have been studying the line's first Boeing 707 jet in test runs since October, reported that a third pilot is needed, along with an engineer. The plane flies so fast that two pilots should always be at the controls, American decided, requiring a third pilot to take over when one of the other two is taking a break...