Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Richard Lent, a tax lawyer, boarded an 8 a.m. Eastern Air Lines shuttle in Washington bound for New York City last week, he took a seat in the rear section of the plane and, mindful of his rights, demanded that his area on the filled aircraft be designated a nonsmoking section. The flight attendants obliged, but some passengers apparently did not hear the ensuing announcement. When a few lit up, Lent lashed out. The fuming smokers decided they would rather fight than switch. Then, according to one flight attendant, "The screaming, yelling and hollering, shoving and insults really started...
...this insurrection doesn't stop, I'm gonna put this plane down." The uproar continued. Kinsey, good as his word, landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Some disgusted passengers canceled out, and the rest boarded a new plane with a new crew and arrived in New York about three hours late. Huffed Passenger Emory Kristof: "I haven't seen a display like that since kindergarten...
...drift, Energy Secretary Charles Duncan made public a confusing state-by-state conservation plan that calls for holding 1980 gasoline consumption to about 7 million bbl. per day, just about where economists expect it to be anyway. In an embarrassingly typical DOE bungle, the targets set for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut during the first three months of next year would allow drivers in those states to increase their auto usage...
...Johnson's would suffer. Restaurants near population centers would surge. So would air travel, as people flew on vacation instead of driving. That would boost sales of more fuel-efficient jets, and Boeing, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas and other planemakers would benefit. But resorts in South Florida and New York's Catskills would be hit hard because most people go there by car. Roadside motels would suffer, but rents of apartments and values of houses close to city centers and public transit would climb...
...shakin', chiefy baby?" is Marshall's jocular greeting to a startled Burger. At the height of the Agnew scandal in 1973, Baseball Buff Stewart had his clerks slip him play-by-play bulletins on the National League playoffs between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Mets as he sat on the bench. One note read: "Kranepool flies to right. Agnew resigns." The Brethren also reports some tantalizing What Ifs. The court came within a vote of, in effect, judicially establishing the Equal Rights Amendment: Stewart held back only because he believed that state legislatures would pass...