Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passenger 747 jumbo jet left the lines with many more seats than they could fill. The lines added so many 747s in the last year that the number of seats on North Atlantic flights soared by 18%, to as many as 56,000 each way during peak summer days...
...mobility, plan well in advance and sort through a bewildering maze of ticket prices. The variety is so great that each passenger in a six-across row of a 707 airliner may have paid a different amount for his ticket. The round-trip New York-London economy fare in peak season is $555, and the price is just about the same for trips between London and Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington. Some ways a traveler can get a better deal: CHARTER FLIGHTS offer the cheapest fares but also involve the most restrictions (although some are frequently ignored). Any nontravel...
Vacationers can save up to 20% on many of these fares by starting their travels out of the "peak season," which generally covers the summer months. In addition, anyone who does not mind a one-hour stopover in Reykjavik can cross the Atlantic for $279 on a peak-season 29-to 45-day ticket by flying Icelandic, the only non-IATA airline regularly running between North America and Western Europe. But its jetliners land only in Luxembourg. If the fare is still too steep, the prospective traveler has one final choice: he can try to go to work...
...transatlantic family fare similar to that presently available only on domestic flights. The head of a household would pay $400 ($500 in peak season) and each accompanying family member $133 ($200 in peak season) for a round trip. The move will be suggested...
Filmed with refined and delicious whimsy by Reginald Mills, given a merrily eclectic score by John Lanchberry, Peter Rabbit never turns cute or saccharine. Instead it echoes the peak of the Victorian spirit: in all the tales, as in Beatrix Potter's life, vicissitudes are there to make the journey interesting. But in the end, in this best of all possible whirls, things come frightfully, delightfully right...