Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people died in third-level crashes. The accident death rate for every 100,000 hours flown is 1.31 for the third-levels, as compared with .09 for the nation's eleven "first-level" trunk carriers and nine regionals. After a Chicago & Southern Airlines plane crashed last month at Peoria, Ill., killing 16, the Government's National Transportation Safety Board ordered an investigation of safety practices in the third-level industry...
Stars and Apples. Burnett started out lettering advertising signs for his father's dry goods store in St. Johns, Mich. He became a police reporter for the Peoria Journal, later joined G.M. and rose to head Cadillac's ad department. In 1935 he borrowed against his insurance and mortgaged his house to get $50,000 to start his own agency. Legend has it that Burnett worked from before dawn until after dark 364 days a year-and took Christmas morning off. He had put in several hours at his desk on the day he died...
Editorial tinkering of a more complex nature was involved in footage on the Peoria speech of one of the "traveling colonels" who push the Pentagon line in public appearances. What appeared on the program to be a verbatim, six-sentence passage from the talk was in fact a splicing of six separate declarations-out of sequence. The Pentagon claimed that the opening sentence came from page 55 of the colonel's prepared text, the second sentence from page 36, the third and fourth from 48, the fifth from 73, and the sixth from 88. In the rearrangement, Agnew contended...
...favor of the conservationists who successfully blocked a Miami jetport in the Florida Everglades. He is as critical of the liberal press as Spiro Agnew, and once told a reporter who said that a Nixon decision would not go down well in the East: "It'll play in Peoria." His staff meetings are less bang-bang-bang than Haldeman's: he moves briskly, but everyone has his say. One joke has it that Ehrlichman eats breakfast the night before...
...long, long runs in New York, Paris, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, London, Tokyo, Sydney and now Boston. It will soon hit such places as Seattle, Honolulu, Memphis, Washington. Tel Aviv and God knows where else. I suspect that by the time we are approaching senility Little Rock, Peoria, Salt Lake City, Gstaad and Darien will all have their own Hairs. (Or, to put it another way, if you don't go see Hair, stick around long enough and some day it will come...