Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crash would not have occurred if the airport had been equipped with an instrument-landing system. In California, some witnesses said that the Phantom, from the El Toro Marine Air Station, had been making barrel rolls-stunt flying-before it collided with the airliner, which was on its correct path from Los Angeles International Airport. It remains for the sole survivor, a Marine radar officer who bailed out, to explain what a military plane was doing making barrel rolls near one of the world's busiest airports...
While the right-wing youths, numbering as many as a thousand, charged back and forth clubbing everyone in their path, including reporters and photographers, the riot police shot tear gas canisters into the remaining conglomeration of marchers. As pistol shots began to ring in the air tanks pulled up behind the column of demonstrators. They were trapped. Some students took refuge in the Normal subway station, others hid in private houses and a nearby hospital. Some of the marchers tried to get away in cars...
...word about maybe your husband helping. She hits on women as targets for advertising, and recommends that they form buying cooperatives. That's it on capitalism. She ends on a call to struggle-although heaven knows it's not to arms: "The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed...
Dead or Alive. Connally's faltering was not all his own fault. He was led down the garden path by Wilbur Mills, a longstanding opponent of the revenue-sharing concept. Mills is determined to discredit Nixon's economic policies and -if possible-kill the revenue-sharing plan forever. This is a matter of not only political philosophy and party loyalty, but also presidential ambition as well. Mills wants to see the Democrats defeat Nixon in 1972; he is also beginning to think that he may be the man to do it. Mills is now taking his presidential candidacy...
...Oregon has a different idea. In the nation's most anti-"growth" state, where bumper stickers proclaim SAVE OREGON FOR OREGONIANS, the legislature has just passed a bill that would channel 1% of all state gas-tax revenues into building bicycle lanes and footpaths. These paths would be built along highways, streets and in parks. The bill also says that the state may restrict paths to nonmotorized vehicles. If Governor Tom McCall signs the bill into law, Oregon's biennial budget will include about $2.6 million for pedalers and pedestrians. Last week the U.S. Transportation Department promised...