Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paralyzed by a stroke, and Rose, 77, who has survived sorrow as intense as that meted out by the gods to the houses of Cadmus and Atreus. Of their nine children, they have buried four: Joe Jr., who died in World War II; Kathleen, who perished in a 1948 plane crash; John, and now Bobby, at the age of 42. Rosemary, 48, has been a lifelong victim of mental retardation. Ted, now the only remaining son, nearly died in a 1964 plane accident. While he was recovering Bobby cracked: "I guess the only reason we've survived is that there...
...that will convey passengers and their baggage from an outlying parking lot into the terminal itself. Airlines are spending $150 million altogether on automated ticket-writing equipment and on a joint reservation system. Between the two, a potential passenger could go to a supermarket, bank or hotel to determine plane space and buy a charge-card ticket, then be checked in by machine when he reaches the boarding gate...
...common problem for all airports is getting the passenger into and through the airport area in order to reach his plane. Airport access roads are becoming altogether too crowded, and cities are searching for new ways to cover the distance. One is helicopters, but they have generally proved uneconomical to operate. Cleveland this fall will begin service on a 4.2-mile, $18,600,000 rapid-transit spur that will convey travelers by train from downtown to Hopkins Airport. New York is similarly experimenting with buses that can go part of the way to Kennedy by rail. Most cities, however...
...Dunlop committee's composition also reflects, on a really high plane, the general effort for committee memberships on broad issues to be balanced among the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities...
...complete history's first round-the-world flight; of cancer; in La Jolla, Calif. "Magellans of the air" was what they called Harding and seven other Army aviators who took off from Seattle on April 6, 1924. Only Harding's plane and one other finished the trip after buzzing 26,345 miles in 363 flight hours...