Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweet smell of Brut on a centerfielder's forearm. They were presiding as honorary captains. Looking back on it, "Joltin' Joe" couldn't help reflecting that no matter what else in the world changes, "baseball was played the same then." The "Say Hey Kid" got round to admitting that the fine, carefree way he used to run out from under his baseball cap when steaming around the bases was partly the result of calculation. Said Mays with a grin: "I always wore a cap a size too small." When the on-field action started, it turned...
Bombs exploded and demonstrators round the world marched in protest on Aug. 23, 1927, the day Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in a Massachusetts electric chair. In the half-century since, the case of the "good shoemaker" and the "poor fish peddler" has continued to stir men's passions. Generations of Americans have wrangled bitterly over whether or not the two admitted anarchists were guilty of shooting two men during a holdup and whether they received a fair trial. Last week Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation officially stating that Sacco and Vanzetti had indeed been...
Hotels were jammed with tourists, conventioneers and suburbanites who could not make it home because the electric-powered commuter trains were out. At the Algonquin, guests were unable to get into their rooms for an hour because the doors lock electronically. Many spent the night partying at the round tables in the dining room that was made famous by Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. At the New York Hilton, switchboard operators phoned each room to tell guests that two can dles were in every bureau?fixtures since the 1965 blackout. The hotel offered free coffee and food through the night...
That is the non-IATA creation of Freddie Laker, the fast-talking Briton who has long been trying to crack lATA's monopoly on scheduled service between London and New York City by offering a daily, no-frills, nonreservation shuttle service at a round-trip price of just $236 (v. $631 for a 14-21 day summer excursion fare). IATA members vehemently opposed him, warning that his "Skytrain" service would hurt the scheduled carriers on the New York-London run and compel them to cut their losses by curtailing flights on less profitable routes elsewhere. Well, surprise. Now that...
PICK-A-WEEK. Pan Am aims to match Laker's $236 round-trip price but not his no-reservations style. Instead, the airline plans yet another new entry in the ever growing list of advance-booking schemes. A traveler who wants Pan Am's bargain rate will have to make a reservation at least three weeks ahead of time and be prepared to put up with some uncertainty: he can choose the week in which he wants to leave, but the airline has until a week before the start of the selected period .to inform...