Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration's wage-price guidelines were beset by a tide of woe last week. While the nation's long-haul trucking slowed drastically, representatives of the industry and the striking Teamsters remained unable to agree on a new contract that came near to meeting the Government's "voluntary" limit of 7% in annual wage and benefit increases. At the same time, a walkout by United Airlines machinists, who are also seeking a guideline-busting settlement, grounded all flights of the U.S.'s largest air carrier and forced the layoff of more than 13,000 pilots...
American commercial planemakers have long dominated the world skies, but their near monopoly is under assault. Last week The Netherlands' KLM and West Germany's Lufthansa, which up to now have operated predominantly U.S.-made fleets, both announced important buys of wide-bodied, twin-engined planes built by Airbus Industrie, a consortium backed by four European governments...
Then the military began behaving according to tradition. Richard was told he could not transfer to Fort Lee after all; the supply units were incompatible. He was unable to get a job anywhere near Fort Lee, nor could Elayne transfer to New Mexico. Richard even tried to transfer to the Army-to no avail. Exasperated by months of snafus, Richard resigned from the Air Force and joined Elayne at Fort Lee. There he eventually found a job as a salesman in a department store. No sooner had he done so than the Army transferred her to West Berlin...
Last week Evans came within six hours of getting just what he planned for. Condemned to die, he had finished eating his last supper a few yards away from the electric chair in Holman prison near Atmore, Ala., when a last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court won him a stay of execution. Evans did not ask for it; his mother did. Evans had told reporters that his death would be the "one constructive, positive act in a blasted life...
DIED. Gordon Parks Jr., 44, black photographer and film maker (Super Fly, Thomasine & Bushrod) who followed in the footsteps of his famous father, LIFE Photojournalist and Film Director Gordon Parks; in a plane crash near Nairobi, where he was directing a new film...