Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week's cover story, written by Associate Editor David B. Tinnin and researched by Sue Raffety and Sandye Wilson, shows clearly that the industry has made flying easier-so easy, in fact, that this summer many jets are flying at full capacity and airports are overcrowded. The airlines that Hannifin has covered for so long have grown into vast corporations; the executives he interviews these days are members of a new breed, more sophisticated and less rambunctious than their predecessors, perhaps, but as competitive. For Hannifin, the romance of air travel has not been lost. Says he: "There...
Plays: Lunchtime Theater--2 one-act plays: Ludlow Fair by Lanford Wilson and Enchanted Night by Slawomir Mrozek. 12:30 p.m., Loeb Theater. Free but obtain tickets in advance...
...Charles Wilson, 61, of California, for lying to the committee in claiming that he had not received anything worth more than $100 since Jan. 1, 1970, when he had accepted $1,000 from Park...
Mary Lynch of Eagan, Minn., used to have a pet white rabbit. Her neighbor, Tim Wilson, used to have a pet black cat. One day Cootus the cat crept out, confronted the rabbit, and, according to Lynch, the bunny died of fright. Lynch called the animal warden, and the cat was soon incarcerated at the local police station, where it hissed at its captors. Three hours after catching the cat, the cops carried it off to a firing range and dispatched it with a shotgun...
...Wilson sued the police, and the court ruled in his favor, for there is an ordinance that animals have to be held five days before being disposed of. It awarded Wilson $40 for his cat plus $5,000 in punitive damages, thus teaching the police that there is more than one way to kill...