Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's airlines also wonder where they are going. Since the jet-age began 20 years ago, their mercurial industry has ridden through three booms and three busts. During expansive periods, lines have ordered too many new jets, and seats have been left unfilled when the economy leveled off or turned down. This time the airline chiefs are determined to avoid the riches-to-rags syndrome...
...Kennedys, Nixons, Third World peasants and American capitalists. No one, alive or dead, is sacred. The Lampoon's last issue included a fictional letter to the editor in which "Larry Flynt" referred to himself as "the George Wallace of porn." With this kind of animus, it is no wonder that the Lampoon's first movie has a richly deserved R rating...
...father of seven daughters and a son, Camel smoker, son of Chicago Columnist Dr. George W. Crane ("The Worry Clinic"), will announce that he is running. Jimmy Carter will not quake in his boots. Ronald Reagan will be mildly irritated, Gerald Ford will be amused, and Crane himself will wonder for at least four seconds what in the world he has done...
...begins Requiem per una Spia (Requiem for a Spy), a tantalizing espionage yarn that was no sooner published in Italy last week than it drew critical praise for the authenticity of its Vatican and U.N. settings. Small wonder: the author is Monsignor Alberto Giovannetti, 65, a retired papal diplomat of 30 years standing. The stout, deceptively cherubic Giovannetti was the Holy See's observer to the U.N. for nine years; he obviously knows as much about the murky subterfuge that pervades the corridors of the U.N. as Jacques Cousteau knows about the deep...
Steptoe and Edwards refused to confirm or deny that there are any other test-tube babies on the way. But Steptoe hopes that "in a reasonable number of years, instead of this being a one-day wonder or a seven-day wonder, it'll be a reasonably commonplace affair." Nevertheless, said Edwards, a great many questions remain to be answered, the chief one being why the uterus accepts or rejects the test-tube embryo. Said he: "This is the first time we've solved all the problems at once. We're at the end of the beginning?not the beginning...