Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hosts had been touched by the Atlanta sun. Rather, they were caught up by one more manifestation of upsurging Southern interest in the Republican candidate. The week before, Nixon found the same enthusiasm in a five-hour hop to Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Aug. 29). He found it again prop-stopping in ruggedly segregationist Birmingham as he began his day-long swing last week...
...offer the equivalent of first-class service (meals include hors d'oeuvres, filet mignon, hard liquor, wine and champagne) at less than half the price, and a chance to travel with -or meet-friends. With more and more regular passengers taking jets, airlines are able to use their prop planes on the charter runs...
...Next came Nixon's own home territory, Los Angeles. Welcomed at the airport by 5,000 cheering people and one baby elephant, Nixon led a motorcade to his alma mater, Quaker-run Whittier College, found the football field jammed with 15,000 greeters. Next morning, on a chartered prop plane (to save the G.O.P. National Committee $11,000 more than a jet charter would have cost), Dick and Pat hurried on to Hawaii, spent two days there island hopping. Nixon campaigned as if he expected Hawaii's three electoral votes to decide the outcome in November...
...brooding, majestic Sierra Nevada range that thrusts up between the valleys of California and the deserts to the east has on occasion been a deadly barrier to man's fragile aircraft. Confident jets and older prop jobs overfly it every day, but hidden among the Sierra Nevada's rocky gorges and forested slopes rests the remains of other planes that struck the range's towering peaks or plunged to earth in wild, relentless winter storms...
...removed from the old standup, joke-book comedians, they mostly do set pieces that are almost playlets. Using the telephone as a trademark prop, Shelley Berman prefers to find his material in the living room rather than the newspaper. Now a father talking to his daughter before her first date, he tells her that a car is a motel room on wheels; now Dr. Sprocket, child psychologist, he tells a patient's mother: "I know your little boy. His name is Oedipus." (While Sahl's four published recordings have sold only 125,000 copies, the closer...