Word: twin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, the slump in the U.S. jetliner business seems to have spurred old competitors to new heights. By far the most noteworthy planes of 1975-the Concorde supersonic transport, the mediumrange, twin-engined Airbus A300B and the short-range Fokker VFW-614-were built by European consortiums. None of these craft pose an immediate threat to U.S. pre-eminence in the world market. But the European planes are of such quality that U.S. manufacturers now must watch not only one another but foreigners determined to open new horizons of excitement and speed in air travel...
...scene: Port Washington, N. Y. "Stretch, Dorothy, stretch. Open up, get your arms up. Move it, keep it going." Although she has just won her third consecutive U.S. figure-skating championship, Dorothy Hamill is training again. She has been up since 5 a.m., on the ice at Twin Rinks since dawn. First she practiced school figures, tracing and retracing circular designs, skating backward and forward in perfect circles. Now it is nearly noon. Sweating and struggling to maintain her radiant smile, Dorothy, 19, is skating her freestyle program. As she swirls over the ice, leaping and spinning at presto pace...
Then somebody discovered that the same twin-trapezoid N, only in solid red, has been since last June the official logo of the Lincoln-based Nebraska Educational Television Network. NETV Art Director Bill Korbus, working on salaried time, had developed the design. Total additional cost: less than $100, says Korbus. "It's hysterical," chuckles NBC Newscaster Tom Snyder. "It's one of those things that happen when executives sit down to do something creative...
Though drubbed by reviewers for their oversimplified and sometimes silly Machiavellian advice, the two books have already sold half a million copies, are currently being offered by six book clubs and are bringing their surprised authors renown as the twin Dale Carnegies of the cynical...
...flying time logged by small aircraft is accounted for by business travelers, and corporations buy the lion's share of the most popular planes in each of the industry's principal categories: the Cessna 172 Skyhawk single-engine (1976 price: $20,750), the Piper Seneca twin-engine ($75,100) and the Cessna Citation jet ($845,000). Though the operating costs of small planes are high, many corporations justify the craft as necessities. High fuel and labor costs have compelled airlines to cut back on both flights and routes. Only 425 domestic airports are now served by the commercial...