Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even easier at St. John, where Laurance Rockefeller bought 9,500 acres and turned it over to the U.S. Government as a national park. Nerve center of St. John is Rockefeller's famed resort named Cancel Bay Plantation, and its more recent sister developments at Turtle Bay and Trunk Bay. Here dignified fugitives from the executive suites in New York and Chicago enjoy quiet vacations with their wives in well-appointed rooms ($40 to $60). There is no golf course, but a variety of unsurpassed beaches lies just at the foot of the cottage steps...
...reaction of Condon's readers is usually either disgust and incredulity or fanatical admiration and incredulity. True believers will be pleased to learn that the first draft of An Infinity of Mirrors, a novel on Paris during World War II, is cooling off in Condon's trunk. And Condon is nothing if not prolific: he has plotted in his head three other novels which may or may not see the light of print...
...bombs' exact dimensions are secret and vary according to power, but range roughly from as small as a football to as large as a big trunk...
...Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1961, Florida Democrat Alan S. Boyd, 40, made it plain that he was anxious to do something about the plight of the nation's airlines. Plagued by skyrocketing costs and too many empty seats, the country's trunk lines dropped over $35 million last year. Boyd's proposed cure: more mergers to create stronger companies. Said he: "It takes a big company to sustain the burden of keeping pace, when aircraft cost $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 apiece...
Airline bosses were quick to take Boyd at his word ; early this year faltering Eastern Air Lines, which is the nation's third biggest trunk carrier, looked over its $9,600,000 losses for 1961 and decided that the best remedy lay in a merger with second-ranking American Airlines, which earned a tidy $7,280,000 last year. Predictably, the proposal evoked a noisy chorus of opposition from rival airlines, the airline unions and the Justice Department's trustbusters. Last week came the most ominous protest yet: in a 119-page report, CAB Examiner Ralph L. Wiser...