Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Call for the Cop. Most programs to ease the glut try to treat aviation within the existing rule of individual right to the air. A few experts take a more radical tack. They would create a federal aviation traffic cop to assign not only flight routes but also schedules and air speeds, thus spreading the jarm out of rush hours. Instead of informing the FAA of his flight plan and being accommodated no matter what the crush, every civilian pilot would have to notify a controller of his intentions and ask: "When...
Predictably, all Gaul is divided on what tack to take with tourists. Small boutiques and big department stores such as Paris' Au Printemps are saying "no sale" to those who want on-the-spot discounts. On the other hand, Liz on the Rue de Rivoli, which counts on Americans for 90% of its business, will go on as before-though the firm is now providing airport-bound customers with buses staffed by hostesses who help with the confusion at customs. And at Dior last week, Director Jean-Marc Depoix comfortingly reassured his jet-set clientele that Dior...
...time Hatcher won the nomination for mayor, a crude frame-up would have been too obvious. Krupa tried the ideological tack. He labeled Hatcher a Black Power extremist and, as the smear spread, it widened to Communist. Krupa demanded that Hatcher repudiate Stokely Carmichael, Rap Brown, Joan Baez, Marlon Brando and sundry other so-called "pinkos" as proof of his patriotism. "I will never repudiate Marlon Brando," deadpanned Hatcher-though the subtlety was probably lost on most Garyites. For the rest. Hatcher would only say that he deplored "civil violence of any kind...
HUNTINGTON REED "TACK" HARDWICK...
...Have you done any military service, young man?" said the spinster, trying a new tack...