Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third-Class Travelers...
First the airlines use all kinds of cut-rate fares [Oct. 16] to encourage us to travel with them. Then they turn around and tell us that we are third-class travelers and don't deserve all the good treatment we have been getting. The source of the complaints, we are told, is the "crowd-weary, briefcase-toting business man or woman." How many of these business men or women paid for their own tickets? And how many of them are on expense accounts...
...G.O.P. leaders in Michigan, fearing they would lose the seat to a Democrat, urged Griffin to reconsider. So too did rank-and-file Republicans, who sent him thousands of cards and letters. Suddenly, last February, the Senator changed his mind and declared that he would seek a third term in the November election...
Illinois Republican Charles Percy never had any qualms about running for a third term in the Senate. Nor did he have any doubt that he would be reelected. Through the summer and fall Percy, 59, enjoyed a huge 20-point lead in the polls over his obscure Democratic rival, Alex Seith, 44, a Chicago lawyer who had never before run for office. Percy scheduled only three weeks of heavy campaigning just before the election and expected a landslide victory, perhaps bigger than his 2-to-l triumph...
...neglect. Toilets that the Chinese once scrubbed meticulously were now subjected to desultory and occasional swabbings by Tanzanian and Zambian workers. The dining car was clean but cramped and hot; its $2.50 menu, passengers joked, included only two choices: chicken and rice, and rice and chicken. In second and third class, travelers swayed together, jammed six or eight to a compartment...