Word: takers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence that the aircraft was defective. Though the exact cause of the crash remained undetermined at week's end, suspicions centered on possible pilot error. Captain Jim Collins, 45, was a flyer of 21 years' experience with a reputation for being "the epitome of a non-risk taker," but it was his first flight on that particular polar route. One theory was that he may have been battered by a sudden "cat"-a burst of vicious clear-air turbulence. Others speculated that Collins might have been the victim of the most treacherous hazard in polar flying: a "whiteout...
...late-blooming playwright widely hailed in 1976 for A Texas Trilogy, his saga of life in a one-horse West Texas town; following surgery for ulcers; in Dallas. Born in Albuquerque, big, burly Jones spent the last half of his life in Texas, working as a director, ticket taker and lead actor at Paul Baker's Dallas Theater Center, where his wife Mary Sue is second in command. Almost 40 when he finished his three plays set in mythical Bradleyville, Jones was discovered by Tennessee Williams' agent, Audrey Wood, who arranged for a Washington production of Trilogy...
...return for $160,000 left on deposit for eight years -an $84,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. When the Desert Empire Bank of Cathedral City, Calif., tried the same gimmick in 1977 in return for a $ 1 million six-year deposit, it failed to find even one taker, but East New York claims to have had 30 "serious" inquiries...
...risk-taker," she said...
...direction of Robert Kalfin and Lynne Gannaway smoothly accomplishes the transitional journey between one alien culture and another and knits both to gether in binding humanity. In his years as Chelsea's artistic director, Kalfin has been a dramatic risk taker of taste. Never has it been more rewarding to share that risk...