Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starts an engine. That brings an even greater surprise: with a muffled groan, the entire room ponderously backs up, turns around and trundles off at the less than jet-age speed of 10 m.p.h. Gradually, it dawns on the occupants that they are in the clutches of a "Plane Mate," one of the three elevated mobile lounges that now carry passengers comfortably from Pan Am's ticketing area to gentle dockings with airliners parked on runways far from the terminal...
...state that likes politicos with pizazz, Askew is a nonsmoking teetotaler who devotes most of his spare time to Presbyterian Church activities. Further, he ran on a platform of substantial tax reform that would cost big business many of its traditional tax breaks, and he chose as his running mate for Lieutenant Governor a man who had already announced his political retirement in the face of $100,000 in unpaid campaign debts...
...Australia policy, the treatment of the country's 180,000 aborigines, Viet Nam, abortion, the status of women-are discussed widely. An embryonic Women's Lib movement based in Sydney has just published the first issue of its newsletter Mejane, named for Tarzan's overly protected mate. Says Daryl Jackson, a young Melbourne architect who has worked and studied in the U.S.: "On all of these issues there is now what might be called a viable quorum. A few years ago there were not enough people concerned with them even to get a dialogue going...
WORD CAME from Washington two weeks ago that President Nixon is working out a new "Southern strategy" in which Treasury Secretary John Connally will replace Spiro Agnew as Nixon's running mate in 1972. But the news caused only a mild wave of feigned surprise among Connally's fellow Texans. Indeed, since Connally moved into Nixon's Republican Cabinet in December, they have come to expect actions atypical of a hardened party man from their ambitious Democratic ex-governor...
Impetuosity, winner of the Blue Grass Stakes (many Blue Grass winners have gone on to win the Derby) has drawn the outside post position, and should he win, it could be considered a minor miracle. His stable mate. Twist the Axe, who ran second in the Blue Grass, is well placed in the middle of the field and his running style, rushing from behind in the last part of the race, is well suited to the Derby distance...