Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Designed by Architect Welton Becket (who has worked on the new airports expansion projects at Los Angeles and San Francisco), McCarran Field's 38,850 sq. ft. hexagonal waiting building consists of three identical sweeps of vaulted concrete like wings, arching from the ground to a 45-ft. peak, and illuminated by vast areas of tinted glass "to portray the beauty and grace of soaring flight and the simplicity and endlessness of space. From the moment the passenger enters the winglike ticketing building to the time he leaves the spacious, vaulted terminal with its feeling of motion, he will...
...speedup was to get the vaccines into doctors' hypodermic syringes in time for the March-through-May period when measles outbreaks come to a peak...
More spare fuel tanks were installed in the rear compartment, where the remaining 32 passengers sat. At peak capacity, a TU-114 can carry 220 passengers, although normal seating is 170. But on the Moscow-Havana run, the figure is about 50. which must make it the costliest per capita flight in the world...
...Some complain that the result is nothing more (or less) than an Ivy League hotel. But it seems to work. When the Princeton Club sold its rambling mansion on Park Avenue and 39th Street three years ago for $2.300,000, membership had slipped down to 3,100 (from a peak 4,000 in 1955). Today it has jumped to a record 4,800, and the applications are pouring in, though the dues have been raised from $90 to $150 a year (as of April...
...infield Orlando Cepeda's eye trouble may prove more troublesome than his current hold-out. Chuch Hiller, Jose Pagan, and Jim Davenport are competently slick, but nothing more. As for the staff, Billy Pierce is 36 and Jack Sanford 34. Each had a peak year in '62 and it would be hubris to assume repeat performances (even though Sanford comes from Wellesley and is highly praised in the Globe...