Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the ink barely dry on the 1977 brochures, the outlook for spring/summer air travel is becoming clear. Flying is in for a big boost. One major reason: the new ticketing arrangement called Advance Booking Charters, which enables passengers to get low-cost round-trip air transportation with fewer restrictions than on any of the previous charter plans. Authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board last October, ABCs are now being pushed aggressively by both scheduled and nonscheduled airlines, notably by Britain's ebullient charter operator Freddie Laker...
...scheduled airlines, though, are not all pleased. Charter carriers, they point out, do not have to provide year-round service on less popular routes. The newcomers, in the words of a Trans World Airlines executive, "skim the cream-run into the market, grab what they can in peak season and get out and into another market." To compete with the charter outfits, the scheduled lines claim they may eventually be forced to curtail their regular services. Possible result: lowered earnings for the big carriers, who have already had plenty of profit problems in recent years...
...correspondence with a girl named Amber Edwina Hunt and nicknamed Amber Jim. The daughter of a janitor in Murray, Utah, she is the state's first female Golden Glove boxer. She has won her first eight fights (against boys), seven of them by technical knockouts in the first round, the eighth in the second. She is a blonde fifth-grader, age eleven...
...Parthenon's original friezes. As for the stones, the rusty iron clamps and rods will have to be extracted and replaced in what one UNESCO expert calls "a gigantic root-canal job." Finally there is the problem of mass tourism-3 million visitors a year shepherded round the Acropolis by yammering guides, 6 million feet setting up their cumulative (and, says UNESCO, destructive) vibrations in the stone. The only solution to that seems to be to reorganize the traffic flow by restricting tourists to a boardwalk around the monuments. The idea of a Parthenon "restored" with fiber-glass replicas...
...voice. With lively scholarship and none of the protection normally afforded fathers by their biographical daughters, Holly Stevens traces the origins of the rhetorician. The "green, hilly, sunny-cloudy place" becomes the setting for the quatrain known to all English majors: "I placed a jar in Tennessee,/ And round it was, upon a hill./ It made the slovenly wilderness/ Surround that hill...