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...STAPLETON. 13.3 million passengers last year. Averages 1,150 landings and take-offs daily. Four parallel runways, eleven airlines. Delays of 30 min. or more...
...named Hazard, Ky., Charlie Hammonds, a gas-station operator, managed to take calamity in stride. His reason: "This is the 26th time I've been flooded since I came here in 1957." At Jack's Union 76 Service Station near Sneedville, Tenn. (pop. 1,000). Owner Jack Stapleton even found cause for cheer, though the Clinch River had risen a record 26 ft. above its banks, sweeping away houses and barns. "The river is going down," he said. "Nobody got killed or hurt bad. The sun is shining, and the birds are singing...
Allowing for these limitations, NBC's series, A Tribute to American Theater, makes a highly auspicious debut with Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Dec. 6, 9 p.m. E.S.T.). Laurence Olivier, who is the artistic producer for all of the programs, plays Big Daddy. Maureen Stapleton is Big Mama, Natalie Wood has the role of Maggie the Cat, and Robert Wagner plays Brick, Maggie's sexually abstinent husband and Big Daddy's favorite son. They all give admirably strong and well-defined performances...
...dawn on Tuesday, Jimmy's sister Ruth Stapleton flew to Atlantic City to promote her book The Gift of Inner Healing. Sales lately have been running at 4,000 copies a week. Ruth signed autographs and chatted with about 200 people who were standing in line at the Christian Booksellers Association convention (see RELIGION). Then she flew back to New York and the intrusion of politics. She received letters addressed "Jimmy's Sister" or "Faith Healer, Plains...
What event could be so important that Jimmy Carter's sister and George Wallace's wife would take a day away from the Democratic National Convention to visit Atlantic City? Answer: the Christian Booksellers Association convention, biggest of the religious-publishing trade shows. While Ruth Carter Stapleton, Cornelia Wallace and other best-selling authors last week met the people who sell their books, moneychangers in some of the 263 booths were offering mawkish, illuminated paintings of Jesus, T shirts that proclaim HE IS RISEN, PRAISE THE LORD paper napkins and LAST JUDGMENT AT HAND bumper stickers. At convention...