Word: piper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dialogue--Grant and lize Jones; Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall...
...viewing. Marty, starring Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand, begins the series. Then, dribbled out one a month, come Bang the Drum Slowly, with Paul Newman, Albert Salmi and George Peppard; No Time for Sergeants, with Andy Griffith; and The Days of Wine and Roses, with Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. After them come The Comedian, with Mickey Rooney, and A Doll's House, with Julie Harris and Jason Robards. The last two shows in the series have not yet been chosen. The producers are still searching for such treasures as the kinescope of a 1955 version of The Petrified...
...fateful collision could have been foreseen by any air controller, without even a glance at the ghostly blips on his radarscope. Like a Piper Cub lost in a thunderstorm, the tiny Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization?representing 85% of the 17,500 federal employees who direct the nation's air traffic?veered wildly off course. It flew into a rage against its employer, launching an illegal federal strike. An angry Ronald Reagan, revving up the full jumbo-jet power of the U.S. Government, deliberately bore down on the defiant union. The result was inevitable: the controllers crashed, the U.S. kept...
Federal aviation experts?including Lewis, a lawyer and licensed pilot, and FAA Administrator Lynn Helms, former chairman of Piper Aircraft Corp. and an experienced test pilot?insisted that the system was as safe as ever. Noting that traffic was down at the nation's airports, some airline pilots contended that this actually made flying less hazardous than before the strike. At busy airports, like Chicago's O'Hare International, aircraft were required to stay 20 miles behind another plane approaching a landing, rather than the usual five miles; planes taking off had to wait five minutes instead of the normal...
Private charter airlines also did well last week. Jet Airways of Los Angeles operates five Learjets and a twin-engine Piper Navajo prop, but demand has been so strong that the company is now looking to lease more planes...