Word: spaciousness
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Though the strike caught the airlines at the seasonal peak of their biggest year ever, they still managed to plug a good many of the gaps in service to 231 cities. Pan American, for example, substituted cramped thrift-class seats for spacious first-class accommodations on all its New York-San Juan flights so as to squeeze aboard 200 more people a day each way. American halved service between New York, Syracuse and Rochester in order to add nine flights a day between New York, Cleveland and Washington. Mohawk Airlines stepped up its schedules where American cut back...
...SPACIOUS SKIES by Pearl S. Buck with Theodore F. Harris. 221 pages. John...
...Podgorny, De Gaulle followed the old Kaluga Road (now Lenin Avenue) down which Napoleon retreated under Czarist cannonfire in 1812. Last week the route was lined by 800,000 Muscovites waving paper tricolors and shouting "Druzhba!" (friendship). The Napoleonic parallel was completed when De Gaulle was escorted to a spacious apartment within the Kremlin walls, the first Western leader ever so honored and the first Frenchman to sleep there since Bonaparte...
...reputed to hold the most elegant "punches," the weekend outings to which would-be members are invited for inspection. With more local graduates to choose from--the Porcellian is partial to Old Boston families--the club can always find a wealthy alumnus who will lend his palatial residence and spacious lawns to the club for a raucous afternoon of football and drinking, usually carried on simultaneously. Skeet shooting, bowls, or other forms of leisurely recreation are sometimes provided for the less energetic...
...past eight years, operating on a budget that would pass for carfare at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been nurturing his company in a glorified Manhattan shoe box called City Center. Last week, like slum kids transported to the country, Rudel and his 200-member troupe moved into the spacious luxury of the New York State Theater at Lin coln Center...