Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luck, a movie he hasn't yet seen-are apt to cost him a third more than the regular coach fare, get him to his destination no more quickly than the people sitting in the less prestigious rows behind him. So complained United Air Lines President William A. Patterson in a speech last week to the Passenger Traffic Association of New York, in which he urged the airline industry to adopt a single class of passenger service; for both economy and safety...
...cutting first-class frills. Patterson claims, airlines could provide coast-to-coast service on a one-class basis at fares only $10 over present coach rates. Coach sections, he declared, are often overcrowded beyond the safety limit for emergency evacuation. Sixteen coach passengers were suffocated, apparently waiting their turn to get out of a United plane, intact but burning, that crashed last year...
...worst mismatch since the Liston-Patterson fight." cried an exultant Republican. Many California Democrats sadly assented. Lured reluctantly into a statewide TV debate with Republican Richard Nixon. California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown discovered last week that in a head-on clash...
Call Me Mister. Just before the fight, sentiment for Patterson had run so high that a poll of boxing writers turned up 51 experts who thought Patterson, at 189 lbs., would win. Only 32 favored the 214-lb. Liston, realistically noting his obvious advantage in size, reach and strength. He had won 33 of 34 fights, 23 of them by knockouts; no one had ever knocked him down...
When it was all over, a benumbed Patterson was unable even to say which punch had finished him. Disguised in a beard that he bought before the fight, he drove home to Scarsdale, N.Y., to await his $1,185,253 share of the $2,183,750 take. In the dressing room, newsmen pressed in on the new champion, himself $282,015 richer for his brief night's work. "Wait a minute. Wait a minute," hollered Liston's pressagent to the yelling mob. "This here is the heavyweight champion of the world. This is Mr. Liston...