Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local loyalty through such amenities as free airport parking, quality booze (Chivas Regal, Beefeater, Jack Daniel's) for the standard $1 tab, and eye-catching stewardesses' uniforms (orange and ochre with Spanish-style capes and hats). More than half of its stewardesses are Orange County housewives who quit other airlines to marry. They are, of course, happy to fly again with the line that gets them home every evening...
State of Flux. The job, as previous Secretary John Connor said after resigning his post, is "in a state of flux." One reason why Connor quit after two frustrating years was the steady diminution of Commerce's influence over na tional economic policy, which now is substantively set by the big quadriad of the Administration's Treasury Secretary, Budget Director, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Thus the Commerce Department's official dominion is slight-and it became even slighter when Johnson last fall created an autonomous Department...
...dawn, 20 members of Florida's Pelican Island Audubon Society raced through the boondocks south of Cape Kennedy to cover a 15-mile-wide circle of fresh-water marshes, piny woods and citrus groves; whenever their cars stopped, their binoculars popped up and down like yo-yos. They quit early at dusk, satisfied at having spotted 129 species, including such rarities as the upland plover and the western kingbird...
...schools. In addition, most parochial school systems have painfully inadequate tenure, pension and medical-insurance programs, provide little chance for laymen to advance into administrative ranks. The inevitable result is not only discontent among laymen but a disturbingly high turnover, as many of the parochial schools' best teachers quit for public school jobs...
...period of transition, then return to Manhattan. With an expected circulation of close to 100,000, the paper will be the largest American daily ever printed outside the U.S.-but it will be put to bed each night without the services of four of the old Trib newsmen, who quit last week when they learned that holdovers from the Times staff were being hired at better salaries...