Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cesare Romiti, the director of Alitalia, put it: "Fiumicino is the worst airport in the world." At least 50% of the planes are late, some for as long as three hours. The reason: the airport has only two runways to accommodate 400 to 500 aircraft a day in peak seasons, and since the runways are built at right angles, they cannot be used simultaneously. Incoming passengers have to wait at least an hour for their luggage. As the baggage is plucked piece by piece from aircraft holds, baggage handlers-when not on strike-toss it on two long counters where...
Dazzling. Many mourn the passing of the grander style of vestments, since, like stained glass, it added an element of visual beauty to the ritual of worship. At the peak of the craft, medieval artisans in particular produced designs of extraordinary richness and delicacy. One of the richest collections in the Western Hemisphere is that of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art from which TIME herewith offers a sampling...
...East Berlin; they probably feared a repetition of the embarrassingly enthusiastic chants of "Willy, Willy!" that greeted the architect of Ostpolitik on his trip to the East German town of Erfurt in 1970. In the wake of Brandt's reelection, his popularity in the East is at a peak-which is why the Stoph regime is not likely to let him visit the German Democratic Republic until next year, at the earliest...
Died. Louella O. Parsons, 92, Hollywood's empress of gossip for more than three decades; in Santa Monica, Calif. Lolly, as intimates knew her, broke into movies as a scriptwriter, eventually moved on to write a daily Hollywood column for the Hearst newspapers. At her peak of influence in the '30s and '40s, the column appeared in 1,200 newspapers worldwide. A celebrated feuder, most notably with Orson Welles over his film Citizen Kane, which she said ridiculed William Randolph Hearst, she was also a tireless reporter with sharp instincts for a story and an early-warning...
...WEST is recovering from the aerospace slump but has a long distance to travel in order to come up to the national level. Unemployment in the Seattle area has fallen from a peak of 15% in May 1971 to 8.8%. Boeing has added 7,000 workers to its local payroll in the past year, and more jobs are opening up in the lumber, machinery and electronics industries. The California jobless rate has declined from 7% a year ago to just under 6% now-still well above the national average. Personal income, however, is rising a bit more in California than...