Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back at Colonel Yeu's forward command post, Yeu was angered by the harassment of loyal Vietnamese air force planes, loudly threatened to shell the airfield immediately. The marines first ordered the Vietnamese airmen to stop their flights. Then Colonel John Chaisson jumped into an armed helicopter, flew to Yeu's command post and had his chopper put down directly in front of the howitzers. In hard Yankee accents, he delivered an ultimatum: "If you make one menacing move toward those artillery pieces, we must consider you hostile. We will annihilate you." By now, five batteries of marine...
...there will be stand-by space available on a desired flight, many have caught on to the trick of phoning in a false reservation in advance, then showing up at flight time to take the fictitious no-show's seat. In one of the newer ploys, called "one stop through hop," two teen-age girls recently boarded a New York-to-Minneapolis Northwest Airlines flight with half-fare tickets good only through an intermediary stop, Milwaukee. Gambling that the stewardesses wouldn't check, they kept their seats in Milwaukee, went on to Minneapolis for free...
...squeezed up a little." The critics say that under Hildred's seat-size standards, anyone who makes an international flight at any level below first class is likely to get squeezed up a lot. Sir William also aroused resentment by helping European airlines in their unsuccessful efforts to stop U.S. airlines from showing in-flight movies. Says he: "The airlines' job is transportation, not running a cinema in an airplane...
...Farley, Franklin Roosevelt's old campaign manager. The company, snapped Farley, was not about to honor "any boycott." Fact was, he continued, that the Israeli bottler in question, the Tempo Beverage Co., was an undesirable business associate; in 1963, Coke had to go to court to make Tempo stop "infringement of the Coca-Cola trademark and bottle design." And Tempo, inevitably, was the disgruntled bottler that had complained to the Anti-Defamation League in the first place. Muttered a league spokesman: "I can't understand why they didn't tell us all this...
...Stop the World-I Want...