Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike that shut New York City's three major dailies slid into its third week, there was dancing in the streets. A pair of high-stepping hoofers dressed in long gowns and sandwich boards were tripping along the sidewalks of New York, together with their dinner-jacketed producer, in an attempt to advertise a new and little noticed revue. A Brooklyn department store, unable to take out the usual full-page ads for its back-to-school sales, took to the skies instead, hiring five computer-assisted planes to cough out messages in white smoke. On Broadway, the Sept...
...morale, Pan Am's fortunes have improved sharply. Profits reached $45 million last year on revenues of nearly $2 billion, and are piling up at a faster pace so far in 1978. As one sign of its recovery, the company announced last week that it would call in a third of a $75 million bond issue it floated two years ago; this will make it easier to finance a purchase of National, partly because it will trim Pan Am's existing interest obligations...
...there, housed in an imposing modern edifice. So are the markets, in their original buildings-but only after a lengthy, civic tug of war and some shrewd, imaginative thinking about the inner city of Boston. Last week's opening of the North Market marked the completion of the third and final stage of a $30 million, 6.5-acre renovation project. With some 30,000 people visiting the area daily, the market is almost outdrawing Florida's Disney World. Says Terry Rankin, head of the Boston Society of Architects: "The danger was in the downtown area that there wasn...
...middle-of-the-road or conservative?are perilous. Above all, the Cardinals seemed to want a pastoral figure, and they selected a man with no experience in the Vatican bureaucracy or diplomatic service. John Paul is a quietly genial man whose priests find him approachable. He is also the third Patriarch of Venice to become Pope in this century. The first was Pius X.* The second was John XXIII, a beloved figure of reform...
When the tourists arrive, head the other way. That is the motto of British Author Graham Greene, who flees his home in Antibes, France, each summer for less crowded haunts. On his third trip to Panama, a favorite spot, Greene visited Panamanian Chief of State Omar Torrijos. "I have not even concluded whether I have done good or bad," Torrijos told his guest. "It's like going to the gas station. You pay and the pump returns to zero. Every time I awake I am back to zero...